Hey everyone! I'd like to introduce a little something I've been working on since February. After 9 months I believe it's at a state where it's ready for a public release!

Let me introduce TriPlayer, my project that came to be due to the lack of a "proper" audio player for the Nintendo Switch. TriPlayer automatically scans and organizes any audio files you have in the /music folder on the root of your SD card. As pictures speak a thousand words, I'll let the following screenshot help describe it:

Spoiler: Screenshots

As you can see, it handles the metadata embedded within audio files in order to create a complete music library. The music will keep playing while you're playing a game or using another application. Playback can be controlled via the provided Tesla overlay or by pressing button combinations on the controller.

Requirements:

• A recent version of Atmosphere (0.10.0+)
  • TriPlayer may work on other CFWs, however this is untested
  • The sysmodule requires ~3MB of free memory, so this may clash with other sysmodules

• A recent firmware version
  • Once again this hasn't been tested, but some code relies on newer firmwares so I suggest 10.0.0+

• Some music!
  • FLAC, MP3 and WAV are supported at this time

Installation:

1. Download the latest release as a .zip from here
2. Extract the contents to the root of your SD card
3. Place some music in /music
4. Launch the application and wait for the initial scan to complete

GitHub:

A lot more information and usage is covered on my GitHub repo. See the readme for a brief introduction and link to the wiki where everything is covered in detail.
https://github.com/tallbl0nde/TriPlayer

Final Notes:

I hope TriPlayer is useful to many of you who have been wanting a music player on the Switch. As it's quite complex, there's a good chance I've missed some major bugs. Please report these as issues on GitHub. Note that should the sysmodule crash, it will crash the entire OS. While I personally haven't had any crashes while both listening and not listening to music, I recommend stopping the sysmodule (either via the app or overlay) when you're not using it if you want to be extra safe.

Enjoy!

 

[UltimateFight]

This will work to stop the sysmodule, but you'll probably find next time you go to start it it won't work. I'm not sure why, but if the process isn't safely shut down it isn't able to reuse the IPC name for communication unless the Switch is rebooted. Because of this I recommend using the "Stop Sysmodule" button in TriPlayer's overlay instead.

I think you can add the json file and type "requires_reboot": true in it, then users can't use sysmodule-overlay to enable or disable TriPlayer but they can choose whether or not to start the TriPlayer at boot. (ok I notice there has a same settings in the homebrewbut why not have more choose?)

 

[MagnesG]

Sweet gonna try it later.

 

[mathew77]

Adding an equalizer would be awesome too

I guess it's already there:

 

[MetoMeto]

I could never use any console as a audio player, they are so clunky and its a process.
Smartphones are the best way to play music like ever!

 

[GatoFiestero]

Woah there is a lot of love on this work. Thanks for sharing :3

 

[UltimateFight]

bug report
Chinese and Japanese characters are missing, looks like a familiar bug.


This one, the artist's name overlaps with the music title.

Finally, why it doesn't show the album's pictures?

 

[KazEz]

Its only me or why its looking same as Groove Music On windows?

 

[hamohamo]

This looks very very cool. But of course flac, ogg and wav are needed. Reminds me of the days when I used my DSi XL as a music and anime watching machine even more than playing videogames

 

[FAST6191]

Re FLAC support
Are that many people in a hurry to waste their storage space? Can you actually hear a difference at the best of times? Is the Switch's DAC and audio setup even vaguely near "best of times"?

As an archival format then yeah sure FLAC is as good as any other lossless format but as a day to day playback... why?

 

[tallbl0nde]

bug report
Chinese and Japanese characters are missing, looks like a familiar bug.
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This one, the artist's name overlaps with the music title.
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Finally, why it doesn't show the album's pictures?

Dang it, I knew I forgot something. Unfortunately that'll mean I need to find a new font that supports all those characters, or perhaps use the default switch one.

I'm not sure about the pictures though, maybe the characters are causing it to not find an image? What happens if you go to the album, then open the context menu (three dots), press view information and try to set the image from the file there?

 

[GatoFiestero]

Works perfectly to me !!!

 

[UltimateFight]

I click the "repalce from audio file"and choose the same mp3 file, then it says "No ablum art was found in the selected file."
I try to"repalce from SDcard" and choose my jpg file, then it works.

 

[Pippin666]

Feature rich, very impressive.

Pip'

 

[tallbl0nde]

I click the "repalce from audio file"and choose the same mp3 file, then it says "No ablum art was found in the selected file."
I try to"repalce from SDcard" and choose my jpg file, then it works.
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Hmm that's a pain, I'm using the mpg123 library to extract the images so I may have to write my own code instead :/
Does it happen with all of your files or only certain ones?

 

[UltimateFight]

All of them.
I upload some MP3s here, maybe it'll be easier for you to research them.
I'm not sure if this is a violation of community rules, if so, please tell me I'll delete them.

 

[SeongGino]

Re FLAC support
Are that many people in a hurry to waste their storage space? Can you actually hear a difference at the best of times? Is the Switch's DAC and audio setup even vaguely near "best of times"?

As an archival format then yeah sure FLAC is as good as any other lossless format but as a day to day playback... why?

FLAC aside, it's people's choice of format so why judge them? If it's what they have, they'd rather use what they have rather than go through a conversion process - especially if it's already in some form of compressed format (.ogg, etc.)

My music library's currently encoded entirely in `.opus` format (for best compression:quality ratio), and obviously going to MP3 is just wasting even more space, plus creating second-generation copies is even less desirable.

tl;dr: Opus support wen?

 

[lordelan]

Looks pretty good and polished. I just wish it could scrobble my listened tracks to last.fm someday.

 

[Chrisssj2]

I guess it's already there:
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Nice. but how can we tell which frequencies are what. It is just 1,2,3,4,5 etc.

 

[lemonmaster]

Re FLAC support
Are that many people in a hurry to waste their storage space? Can you actually hear a difference at the best of times? Is the Switch's DAC and audio setup even vaguely near "best of times"?

As an archival format then yeah sure FLAC is as good as any other lossless format but as a day to day playback... why?

Some people want the best quality possible, even if it means barely any difference and lots of space wasted. I consider them one of myself. Not to mention if perhaps flac and etc formats never got supported for this in the near future, I would have to go through the pain of converting tons of my playlists to mp3s just to use them on this app.

 

[raxadian]

Unfortunately the Switch is a tad too big for a portable music player. Even the lite is still too big. Heck only my DS lite was small enough while folded.