How to Play Spotify Music on Nintendo Switch

By Li ZhangUpdated on December 16, 2022

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"How to get Spotify Music on Nintendo Switch? In some days before, I try to sync Spotify Music with Switch but failed. I want to set my favorite Spotify Music songs as game background music but I can't find out the Spotify app on the Switch. How to make it be available?"

As one of the largest music streaming service in world, Spotify attracts millions of music fans to subscribe. At the same time, Nintendo Switch has became one the most popular game player for game fans. It is common thing that people add their favorite songs as the background music in game, which can enhance the atmosphere of game stories. Now a part of game consoles such as PS4, PS5, and Xbox One allows you to play Spotify in the background while playing games. However Switch is not included.

Why You Can’t Add Spotify Music to Switch Directly

As you know, Spotify Music is DRM-protected, avoid anyone accessing and copying music contents from Spotify for using without official authorized. It means that you can’t listen to Spotify Music out of its app or web player. Even you are a Premium user, the songs downloaded from Spotify are just cache files, it will disappear when your music subscription ends. In other words, you rent the music from Spotify instead of owning them truly.

Is Nintendo Switch Support Spotify?

In face, not all game player support play Spotify as the background music, Nintendo Switch doesn't support that either. Actually, there's no official internal music player for Nintendo Switch at all. If you want to play Spotify Music while gaming, you have to find an extra audio player like TriPlayer for help. It's a music player especially built for Nintendo Switch, capable of automatically scanning and organizing any audio file you have copy to SD card in Switch.

CONTENTS

Part 1: The Best Way to Download Spotify Music as MP3, M4A, AAC

It must be disappoint that Nintendo Switch users who want to listen to Spotify songs while playing game since they can't sync the music with Switch directly, but here we will show you the best way to play Spotify Music on Nintendo Switch with ease. You can listen to Spotify Music that stored on an SD card using Nintendo 3DS Sound. Both MP3, M4A, AAC are the compatible music formats can be played on Switch. What you need to do is to download Spotify Music to AAC, MP3, M4A format, then transfer them to SD card and then enjoy them on your Nintendo Switch.

Here comes a best helper called UkeySoft Spotify Music Converter, which is an all-in-one music converter tool, help to download and convert Spotify Music to MP3, M4A, AAC, WAV, FLAC, AIFF with high audio quality. Download Spotify Music songs with 5X faster speed and a batch music conversion function. As a result, you can get output music as MP3, M4A, AAC files, then transfer the MP3, M4A, AAC files to SD card, play Spotify on Nintendo Switch via SD card (using Nintendo 3DS Sound). Then you can set Spotify Music as game background music and get better game experience. Besides, UkeySoft program is built-in Spotify Music player and Spotify Music web player, which will help to get better music management experience.

Features of UkeySoft Spotify Music Converter

• Download and convert Spotify Music to common audio formats
• Download Spotify Music with high audio quality
• 5X faster speed and a batch music conversion function
• Built-in Spotify Music player and Spotify Music web player
• Play Spotify on Nintendo Switch via SD card

How to Download Spotify Music as MP3, M4A, AAC

Step 1. Install UkeySoft Program and Log in Spotify Account
In the first step, please run UkeySoft Spotify Music Converter program on your Windows or Mac computer, click “Log in” on the top right corner to log in your Spotify account. Our program promise you that your information will not be leak.

Step 2. Set MP3/M4A/AAC as Output Format
Click the gear icon on the top right corner to set MP3/M4A/AAC as output format, here you can also set output folder, output file name, etc,.

Step 3. Select Music to Download List
Select the songs you need and add them to the download list, when you click a playlist, all songs in the playlist will be default selected, cull the ones you don't need.

Step 4. Download Spotify Music as MP3, M4A, AAC
Just click "Convert" to download and convert selected Spotify songs to MP3, M4A, AAC, you can click “Stop” to interrupt the conversion during the process.

Step 5. Play Output Music Files
When the music conversion is done, you are allowed to play output music files by clicking "History", then click the play icon in every song with built-in music player in program.

Part 2: Sync and Play Spotify Music on Nintendo Switch

Now you have got output music files that are compatible with Switch. In this part, you just need to copy the downloaded Spotify songs to Nintendo Switch via a SD card, then start playing to Spotify songs by using TriPlayer.

Step 1. Copy Spotify Music to Switch SD Card
Pull out the SD card from your Switch and insert to the card reader of your computer. Locate and open the external folder of SD card on computer, at the same time open the "Music" folder. Then Simply drag and drop the Spotify Music downloaded songs to the "Music" folder.

Step 2. Download Switch Music Player - TriPlayer
Download TriPlayer.zip on your computer, extract the content and copy them to the root of SD card. Once transferred, insert the SD card to your Switch.

Step 3. Play Spotify Music on Nintendo Switch While Playing Game
Find and open the TriPlayer app on Nintendo Switch. Then you can easily get all Spotify Music listed on this Switch audio player. Play Spotify Music on Switch as game background music while playing game.

Done. Now you can play Spotify Music on Nintendo Switch via SD card (using Nintendo 3DS Sound), set Spotify Music as game background music. Why not download UkeySoft Spotify Music Converter to have a try and get better game experience!

Li Zhang

Justin Sabrina has over 10 years of content writing experience. She specializes in product reviews, how-to guides, tips and tricks, top lists, etc. on data encryption, multi-media conversion, screen recording and iOS unlocking. At UkeySoft, she performs in-depth research SEO copywriting and collaborates with our R & D team to offer effective software solution, most of her articles on software are helpful and easy to read, helping our reader easily solve problems through using software or apps.

Li Zhang

Li Zhang is a sophisticated editor for UkeySoft in tech blog writing, as well as a SEO and content marketing expert. She has been writing related article about multimedia conversion, streaming music and streaming video since 2018. Also, she's starting to write article about data security, including articles about file lock, USB encryption, DVD encryption, etc. Each helpful tutorial and solution is based on her practical tests, she is aways energetic and trustworthy in this field.

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Chester is an experienced editor for UkeySoft focused on tech article writing, software & hardware produce review and tutorial. He specializes in composing posts about music conversion, video downloading, video conversion, screen recording and other tech knowledge tips. He always understands user needs and pain points and familiar with all kinds of multimedia conversion software and streaming music downloader on the market. So far, he has published 400+ helpful tech articles of software reviews, how-to guides to help reader in need.

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