TriPlayer is a feature-rich audio player for the Nintendo Switch. It is able to play music in the background, including when playing games or on the HOME menu.

To use TriPlayer, a Nintendo Switch console with the capability of running Atmosphere is required. It gained it's name as it consists of three separate components, and initially its ability to play MP3 files.

The documentation is located here.

• Audio playback while in-game.
• No impact on game performance (runs on separate CPU core).
• Automatically organized library based on ID3 metadata.
• Album/artist image scraping via TheAudioDB.
• Custom playlists.
• Fast library search.
• Ability to add and remove songs to play queue.
• Beautiful and easy to navigate interface.
• Highly customizable with many settings that can be changed.
• Basic 32-band equalizer.
• Update in-app.
• And many more.
• Supported audio formats: FLAC, MP3, WAV.

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 relatively up-to-date firmware:
  • Some components require functionality that was added to later firmwares, so 10.0.0+ is currently supported.
• Some music:
  • FLAC, MP3 and WAV are supported at this time.

Installing

To install this software, follow these steps, which are similar to other homebrew installations:

• Download the latest release from here.
• Extract the downloaded .zip file to any location you prefer.
• Copy the extracted folders to the root of your SD card.
  • You should be copying the atmosphere and switch folders to the location on your SD card which also contains the atmosphere and switch folders. These folders will be merged automatically. If prompted, overwrite any files necessary.
• You have installed the app and may now delete the .zip file and extracted folder from your computer.

Updating (Manual)

It is recommended to update the software within the application to avoid errors. However, if you must update manually, follow these instructions:

• Download the latest release from here.
• Extract the downloaded .zip file to any location you prefer.
• Copy the extracted folders to the root of your SD card.
  • You should be copying the atmosphere and switch folders to the location on your SD card which also contains the atmosphere and switch folders. These folders will be merged automatically. You should be prompted if you wish to overwrite a lot of files. Say yes to all of these.
• Restart the application, overlay, and/or sysmodule if they were running.
• That's it, you may now delete the .zip file and extracted folder from your computer.

If you get a "versions do not match" when starting the application, simply reboot your Switch and you should be good to go.