Hardware Integrated Music System?

[aykay55]

Something missing on Nintendo’s 1 and a quarter year old console: music. It’s nowhere to be found. There is just no way to listen to your tunes while searching the world in Odyssey or killing those creeps in DOOM. The only solution which might work (correct me if I’m wrong) is if you play music from your phone and connect it to that audio mixer for Switch Voice Chat, but we all know how crap that’s gonna be. Microsoft and Sony both have systems in place for background audio on their respective consoles, but Nintendo........is being Nintendo. Which, right now, to be clear, is not something good. Nintendo should definitely copy this feature from their competitors, but looking at how things are going for the Switch, I doubt we will ever see this kind of feature come to Nintendo Switch. But what do you all think, would you favor Nintendo adding music to their consoles, so you can jam out to modern pop while slaying medieval monsters in Skyrim.

 

[Zumoly]

That is quite an interesting idea mate!
I'm sure I would enjoy better tunes than the one selected for me say in....puyo puyo tetris.
But I think Nintendo might be blocking these features to avoid any slowdowns while playing a game: only one task at a time!
But I believe the hacking community will have their say about this. We already have:
- the ability to transfer files diirectly to our SD card from a PC (both wired and wireless) aka memloader
- a multipurpose file manager in progress
- emulators for retro games that are growing by the day
- I'm sure I missed many more

So let's just wait and see how things develop.[emoji41]

 

[huma_dawii]

I want music for the MainMenu and for eShop....

 

[Pippin666]

What a f*useless feature. Do you change the music when you watch a movie ?

Pip'

 

[FAST6191]

What a f*useless feature. Do you change the music when you watch a movie ?

Pip'

Actually yes. Makes for some awesome music videos at times.

Equally you may be thinking about it from a perspective of the games you play. If you are playing "cinematic" type game with orchestrated music to match the action then yeah having urban spaceman start blaring out probably won't match things. An open world game (especially modern ones but you could still matching things with something like Skyrim if you wanted), sports game, something like a skateboarding game or other open world ish sports game, even a humble puzzle game then there is absolutely a case for such a thing, if nothing else then having the same 20 songs shuffle in and out gets a bit tedious if it is going to be your game of choice.

As for the question of the OP you could kick it really old school and take the audio out of your TV (many will have audio outs for good reason, and if not maybe consider having a session with the soldering iron) or the switch (be it headphone jack or tapping off HDMI or something) and sticking it into an audio amp with another source or the line in of your PC and mixing things on that. Some amps even have HDMI in so you could use that as well but you tend to have to go and find such a toy rather than it being there by default. Bonus there is as most modern screens with speakers in sound truly abysmal (the slimline nature of such things all but guaranteeing such things) then you will have better sound to boot.