I really wish we could turn the hourly music off. I think it would help me find a mole cricket easier. It’s the last bug I need for my second island.
I've never understood why after more than 20 years, the series has never implemented a basic options menu for this sort of thing. I primarily play Animal Crossing on an old TV with some very lackluster speakers, so trying to gauge proximity with mole crickets is nigh impossible. For that matter, it's easier for me to fish by listening to it, rather than by watching the bobber, so turning down the music would help considerably.
But all that aside, I just find the music to be... sometimes very unhelpful when I'm trying to relax. It doesn't flare my anxiety or anything, obviously, but sometimes you just want to turn
off the music and listen to the natural soundscapes, really take in the atmosphere of everything. It's why none of the rooms in my house have auto-playing music. I do love music, and I do usually have something on while I'm working or playing, but there are increasingly more times lately when the silence, as they say, is golden.
I have to assume the reason they've never done this in the past is because music and sound effects are not segregated in the audio channels, which makes it excusable for the older games when audio channels were more limited. But for a game released on the Switch in 2020, it just comes across as extremely antiquated.
