Modified Background Music Script with added overlays!

madmodder123

@DarishZone
I might be able to add an option to round the edges at a later date :)

DarishZone

@madmodder123 said in Modified Background Music Script with added overlays!:

@DarishZone
I might be able to add an option to round the edges at a later date :)

Great, it just match ES main menu window :D
Massive work, thanks so much

DarishZone

Please man make edge rounded, i would do it by myself but i'm afraid is beyond my knowledge :D

madmodder123

@DarishZone
I updated it!
Just download it and change it to:
overlay_rounded_corners = True
and you are good to go :)

DarishZone

@madmodder123 said in Modified Background Music Script with added overlays!:

@DarishZone
I updated it!
Just download it and change it to:
overlay_rounded_corners = True
and you are good to go :)

What a wonderful christams gift, thank u so much man :)

JesseBlue

Is it possible to edit the font size and the font alignment?

madmodder123

@JesseBlue
If you change the overlay size it will automatically resize the text.
If you want to edit the font alignment/other font attributes, you can look at this page: http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/text/
and edit the following line of code to add whatever code you need:

generate_image = "sudo convert " + overlay_rounded + "-background " + overlay_background_color + " -fill " + overlay_text_color + " -font " + overlay_text_font + " -gravity center -size " + overlay_size + " label:\"" + song_title + "\" " + overlay_tmp_file # Generate png from text

PS: I would download the latest version of the BGM.py script, I cleaned up the code to make it easier to edit (the functionality remains unchanged though)

neonlightning

any chance of making this a bit more system agnostic? as is it'll take a fair bit of editing to work on the odroid since you hardcode /home/pi/ in it and odroid uses /home/pigaming/

madmodder123

@neonlightning
I will make it more compatible with other systems :)
Not sure when, but i'll update this topic when I do

BJRetro

@madmodder123 just to confirm does this script work with Retropie 4.4 on Stretch? Didn’t want to screw up anything on my system although this looks awesome!

madmodder123

@BJRetro Yeah it should, I personally haven't started using stretch yet.
If you wanna try it, always make a backup image of your SD card before updating/changing things/adding scripts . Then you can just revert back to the previous image if things are messed up

DarishZone

I confirm it working fine on Retropie Stretch 4.4.4, with last updates is like an official bgm player.
I suggest turn background overlay white, text black (gray is too light, i don't know the command for darkgray, not seem to work) to match ES menu style.

Edit: "DimGray" for text is very close to ES palette!

BJRetro

@DarishZone thank you! Building a bar top this week on a fresh load of Retropie so will try to incorporate this!

DarishZone

I was able to set a config similar to gleam2003 with last madmodder123 update! The overlay is placed on same area of ES notifications. Thanks for your great work, that thread should be more alive...

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zaibatsu

Completely new to this and I'm having some issues with installing the script. When I try to run the install command i'm met with these "No such file or directory" errors alt text , and it's not installing the BGM.py and BGM_Toggle.sh either. i'd appreciate if if anyone can help me out here.

madmodder123

@zaibatsu
I have updated the script and it should work now.
Just make sure you delete the old install script and the /home/pi/retropie_music_overlay folder if it is there.
Just run it and it should work

zaibatsu

@madmodder123 Thanks, just tried it and it seems to be working just fine now.

madmodder123

@neonlightning
IF you haven't check GitHub, I have an ODROID on the way :)

cyperghost

@madmodder123 Hehe ;) Rather to mess with the TV-Service you should take a look to to OGST-case... It looks like a N64 case but has a build in display in front. So you might want to send the song information to that display?

My experience for the ORA-image (or TheRA) were really good. I wrote also some scripts to make reset button work. There are also some other scripts in my github account for XU4 ....

But imho the Raspberry gives the better retro experience. You will be lucky with the ODroid if you use it as Media Center, too. For RetroPie alone the RPi is the better choice. If you are a heavy N64 and Dolphin user then the XU4 is your friend ;)

neonlightning

@cyperghost not dolphin but dreamcast yes