Quick and easy guide for adding music to Emulatonstation on RetroPie. Noob friendly!

Finnbro

@cyperghost Thank you so much for the quick response! I will try this stuff and report back if I need further assistance.

vj88

Hi everyone!!!
I have a problem with this... splash screen won't play over e.s. loading screen! Emulation always starts at splash screen end. I know that the problem is this method cause it doesn't wait without it!
Any help please?
Ps sorry for bad english
Thanks.

coldnpale

It happens for me also like that.. I thought it was supposed to be like this. It's not a big issue but would be nice to save some more time.

cyperghost

Did not see .... I once gatherd some interesting sniplets that can be very usefull for music control.

This script Toggles mpg123 - so if mpg123 ist not running it will be started. If it's running the process will be stopped. If the process is stopped it will be continued!
The other script Plays annother track. This is simple the same procedure as I posted to @Finnbro - It kills the mpg123 process and restarts it with parameter -Z.

Be aware to change pathes to your MP3 or playlist collection.

zerojay

You can use that with the script that allows you to run commands with combinations of button presses to do all that on the fly.

Alturis

Interesting. Going to try these loops as "music"

Arcade Background noises
http://arcade.hofle.com/

cyperghost

@Alturis
I don't want to hijack the thread
So I created a new BG-Music on Retropie - Post your favourites here

coldnpale

@vj88 said in Quick and easy guide for adding music to Emulatonstation on RetroPie. Noob friendly!:

I have a problem with this... splash screen won't play over e.s. loading screen! Emulation always starts at splash screen end. I know that the problem is this method cause it doesn't wait without it!

Anyone else having this issue? Is it normal or can it be avoied?

Finnbro

The above scripts are helpful, thanks!

Brigane

I have a problem getting both mp3 and video snaps playing at the same time. Also the in-game sound is gone.
I think the reason is that the audio source is busy playing the audio (mp3) and it can not handle the video snaps and mp3 files simultaneously for some reason.

This also happens when I use your image @dmmarti (Motion Blue V5) with the included background music script. Do you have an idea what I can do?

I'm using a USB Sound Card such as this one https://www.ebay.com/itm/PC-Win7-Mac-Vista-H1-3D-Virtual-Audio-Sound-Card-Adapter-USB-2-0-7-1-Channel-/152624039538

Any thoughts?
Any help or thoughts are much appreciated.

westleigh77

@tmntturtlguy I had the same thought. It's been a year, thought I'd check in to see if anyone's come up with a solution

edwardthehuman

installed this succesfully, but it mutes the game music/sounds entirely when i enter it. any solution?

Brigane

@edwardthehuman

This is kind of the same problem I'm having. Do you use a USB sound card or just HDMI?

Yuu

@brigane I am facing a similar issue. If I have the background music enabled, all in-game sounds don't work. If disabled, no problems. I am using the 3.5 jack to get sound out. Was there ever a solution?

Brigane

@yuu not that I know of. I thought this would occur to other people as well but that doesn't seem to be the case.

zerojay

Perhaps something caused by the audio device selected?

Brigane

@zerojay yeah perhaps, but how will I know :)

zerojay

...By changing the audio device selected?

Yuu

I've had it set on either Auto or 3.5, same result; if the background music is enabled, there will be no ingame music. I need to test this with HDMI.
Edit: Tested with HDMI w/ HDMI Sound. This only effects the 3.5 jack output; HDMI with sound going to TV works fine.

Brigane

@yuu thank you for clarifying that. Now, if only we knew how to make it work with 3.5mm or a USB sound card for that matter.