Nintendo Music just got a dreamy update
It's time to drift away to Dire, Dire Docks with the Nintendo Music app
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😴 Nintendo has added a useful feature to the Nintendo Music app that should help you sleep at night
⏰ There is now a sleep timer so you can choose a time when your music stops playing in case you don't stop it before you go to sleep
👍 They have also updated the 'Extend to…' feature to add more choices of durations, and extended it to work with playlists
👉 The app is free for Switch Online subscribers or $19.99 for a 12-month membership
Nintendo has announced a small but useful addition to the new Nintendo Music app with its latest update that will please those who want to drift away to some iconic Nintendo tracks.
With the new 1.2.0 update, a sleep timer has been added that allows you to stop your music at a certain time, which Nintendo says is designed for listening to music before you sleep.
This is particularly useful if you don't want to be awoken by your music the following morning if you've fallen asleep and forgotten to turn it off.
In addition, Nintendo has updated the app's 'Extend to…' feature where you can now set durations of five or ten minutes, and it now applies to any playlists you create.
There are also other general improvements to stability and the overall user experience.
The Nintendo Music app is free to Switch Online subscribers or $19.99 for a 12-month membership, and allows users to listen to all of Nintendo's iconic music from games across generations without any interruptions. It can even provide recommendations based on your Switch play history.
Nintendo continues to add new music and tracks, with over 50 game soundtracks now available since it launched. Nintendo recently added the soundtracks for Splatoon, Luigi’s Mansion, Kid Icarus and Tetris.
Reece Bithrey is a journalist with bylines for Trusted Reviews, Digital Foundry, PC Gamer, TechRadar and more. He also has his own blog, UNTITLED, and graduated from the University of Leeds with a degree in International History and Politics in 2023.