How can i add Menu (MP3) Music to my Retropie on Linux Xubuntu 18.04 LTS ? (Solved)

SingingCoyote13

I have a working raspberry pi 3b with menu music,
i followed some googled docs on how to get the retropie
to have (mp3) background menu music playing with use of
mpg123 and editing bash.rc runcommand etc,

now i also have retropie installed on a linux Xubuntu 18.04LTS
machine, but i cannot seem to get menu music in it. i dont
know what to do. can anyone helpme out

mitu

What guide did you follow and what steps did you do from the said guide ?

wmarcio

Hi, i use this script on Lubuntu 18.04.3

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/347/background-music-continued-from-help-support

And here: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/347/background-music-continued-from-help-support/43
its another, your choices.

Sorry my bad english, i am a Brazilian.

SingingCoyote13

@mitu for my raspberry pi is used the following steps
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/9133/quick-and-easy-guide-for-adding-music-to-emulatonstation-on-retropie-noob-friendly
and on my raspberry pi everything works well,
however i do not know how to get this working likewise
with retropie installed on top of an os like Xubuntu in my case.

SingingCoyote13

i found out how to do it ! i used this link and adjusted it;
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/9133/quick-and-easy-guide-for-adding-music-to-emulatonstation-on-retropie-noob-friendly
used partial above link (adjusted for Xubuntu)

i did the following;

install mpg123 from synaptic package manager !

i copied the mp3 music to my home/user/bgm folder

then i went to opt/retropie/configs/all
and i created the following 3 files in this folder;
runcommand-onend.sh and runcommand-onstart.sh
and a file start.sh

start.sh contains

while pgrep omxplayer >/dev/null; do sleep 1; done
mpg123 -Z /home/user/bgm/*.mp3 >/dev/null 2>&1 &
gnome-terminal --full-screen --hide-menubar -e emulationstation

Do not forget to replace your username with ´user´ in the line /home/user/bgm/*.mp3

runcommand-onend.sh contains

pkill -CONT mpg123

runcommand-onstart.sh contains

pkill -STOP mpg123

then i ran in a terminal in the /opt/retropie/configs/all folder

chmod +x *.sh

and now i can start retropie with menu music in (x)ubuntu
with the following command in a desktop starter

/opt/retropie/configs/all/start.sh

omly thing is that the music keeps playing afer shutting down
emulationstation/retropie. so i use

pkill mpg123

in a terminal to stop the music.

hooperre

@SingingCoyote13 Does this method work with ports? IIRC, it skips runcommand. I could be wrong.

cyperghost

@hooperre said in How can i add Menu (MP3) Music to my Retropie on Linux Xubuntu 18.04 LTS ?:

@SingingCoyote13 Does this method work with ports? IIRC, it skips runcommand. I could be wrong.

You are wrong

SingingCoyote13

@hooperre dont know if it works with ports, my retropie version is latest 4.5.1 latest setup-script and runs on linux Xubuntu 18.04LTS.
btw, this is exact how it worked on my linux pc
its exact what i did to get music in the menus,
maybe do not forget to install mpg123 from synaptic package manager