Summary
Nintendohas been hitting us with a lot of unexpected reveals these past few weeks, none of them the one big reveal that everybody is waiting for. The latest of those smaller surprise reveals came on Wednesday night whenit shadow-dropped an app called Nintendo Music. The service is loaded with original soundtracks from throughout Nintendo history and as great as that sounds, it didn’t take long for some of its first users to find problems with it.
The biggest grievance early adopters of Nintendo Music have is a lack of credit for those who composed its music. The display on Nintendo Music looks similar to what you see on Spotify and other popular music streaming apps when you hit play. Artwork dominating most of the screen with a progress bar, controls, and track info underneath. In Nintendo Music, that track info includes the name of the song and the game in which the music was originally featured. However, it doesn’t reveal who composed the song.
Quite a few people have already shared their disappointment in Nintendo for not crediting creators in the app. Lewchube was among the first to highlight the missing info noting that it was particularly disappointing to see the Pokemon music included go uncredited.Bee_Kirbypointed to Nintendo’s years-long pursuit of others using its licensed music without permission only to omit artist names now that it has finally started to gather all of its music together in one place, something that’s standard practice on every other music streaming app.
Nintendo Music Users Call For Nintendo To Credit Composers In Its New App
They’re Not Happy About The Limited OSTs At Launch Either
While a lack of composer credits is the biggest issue Nintendo Music users have with the app at this early stage, a lack of content at launch has also rubbed some the wrong way. While Nintendo has covered a lot of different series and pulled from every major console from theNESto theSwitch, there are just 23 soundtracks on the app to kick things off. Nintendo has already confirmed more music will be added to the service in the future.
Unfortunately, most won’t be surprised by the lack of credits and the gradual rollout of OSTs for Nintendo Music. Nintendo continues to refuse to tell anyone who is developing its games until we finish the games ourselves and find out in the credits, and since you need an NSO subscription to access Nintendo Music, it likely believes the promise of more music will entice people into remaining signed up. Hopefully the rollout of more soundtracks isn’t as random and infrequent as its NSO library additions.
