[STEAM] Nintendo’s music app has great ideas and frustrating limitations

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Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Listening to Nintendo music isn’t easy. It’s not available on streaming platforms, so I usually end up scouring

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for songs from Animal Crossing and Metroid. Because of this, I was hoping that Nintendo Music,

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, would be my one-stop shop for listening to Nintendo soundtracks. But while it features some clever ideas, there are lots of frustrations and weird choices from Nintendo that mean it isn’t quite what I was hoping for.

Navigating the app, which is available on iOS and Android but only accessible to Switch Online subscribers, feels a lot like other music services like Apple Music or Spotify. You can browse tracks from individual games or hand-curated playlists themed around things like...

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