Nintendo 3DS Sound

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Nintendo 3DS Sound is the music playing and audio recording application that is included with all retail consoles.

It loads audio files from the sd card. It supports MP3 and AAC encoded audio files and supports m3u playlists.

Playlist file format

The application allows for user created playlists. They are stored on the SD card.

Offset Size Description
0x00 0x04 Magic bytes, 'O', 'V', 'A', 'F' or "FAVO" endian corrected.
0x04 0x04 Always integer with value 16
0x08 0x04 File size (0x26730)
0x0C 0x04 Zero Padding
0x10 0x02 checksum (songs?)
0x12 0x02 Icon ID (0-44) if id==-1 then loads custom icon from end of playlist?
0x14 0x02 Song file count
0x16 0x02 Number of possible songs (usually 0x12C/300)
0x18 0x04 some kind of timestamp, for encryption (dosn't change when editing)
0x1A 0x01 checksum (icon?, header?) (dosn't change when editing)
0x1B 0x01 checksum (name?) (dosn't change when editing)
0x1C 0x04 always(?) integer with value 6
0x20 0x100 (avaiable 0x40) Playlist name stored in UTF-16
0x120+(n*0x20C) => n<300 692 (0x20C per song) File name stored in UTF-16. Repeats for the rest of the file.
0x2672F - End

Sample reader

This is a basic example of how to read a 3DS playlist. I know that this works on my specific system; on any other system, it's liable to fail. I'm not responsible if you hurt yourself.

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdint.h>

uint8_t buf[0x26730];
uint16_t checksum, icon, songCount;
uint32_t timestamp;
uint8_t playlistName[0x100];
uint8_t songName[0x20C][299];

void readUtf16AsAscii(uint8_t *input, uint8_t *output, uint16_t length, uint32_t offset) {
	uint16_t j=0;
	for (j=0; j<length; j++) {
		output[j] = input[(j*2)+offset];
	}
}

int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
	uint16_t t=0;
	FILE *playlistFile;

	if (argc != 2) {
		printf("Usage: %s FILE\n", argv[0]);
		exit(1);
	}

	if ((playlistFile = fopen(argv[1], "rb")) == NULL) {
		printf("Could not open %s.\n", argv[1]);
		exit(1);
	}

	if (fread(buf, 1, 0x26730, playlistFile) != 0x26730) {
		printf("Could not 0x26730 bytes from %s.\n", argv[1]);
		exit(1);
	}

	if (!((buf[0] = 'O') && (buf[1] = 'V') && (buf[2] = 'F') && (buf[3] = 'A'))) {
		printf("%s is not a 3DS playlist file.\n", argv[1]);
		exit(1);
	}

	checksum  = (buf[0x11] << 8)  | buf[0x10];
	icon      = (buf[0x13] << 8)  | buf[0x12];
	songCount = (buf[0x15] << 8)  | buf[0x14];
	timestamp = (buf[0x17] << 24) | (buf[0x16] << 16) | (buf[0x19] << 8) | buf[0x18];
	readUtf16AsAscii(buf, playlistName, 0x100, 0x20);
	for (t=0; t<songCount; t++) readUtf16AsAscii(buf, songName[t], 0x20C, (0x120+(t*0x20C)));

	printf("Checksum:\t%04X\nIcon ID:\t%04X\nSong Count:\t%04X\nTimestamp:\t%08X\nPlaylist Name:\t\"%s\"\n",
	checksum, icon, songCount, timestamp, playlistName);

	for (t=0; t<songCount; t++) printf("Name of song %03i: %s\n", t, songName[t]);
}