Is there a dedicated music player for Retropie?

[GTR_BOSS]

I don't want kodi. I have finished my build and have quite a bit of space left of my card that I would like to fill up with music.

Is there a simple music player for retropie that can be integrated in the main ES menu so that when not playing games round my friends places we can just select some music to listen to?

I know there are background music tweaks but im after a dedicated player where we can select tracks/albums/shuffle etc and have some control over our music files.

[mediamogul]

@GTR_BOSS said in Is there a dedicated music player for Retropie?:

I don't want kodi.

Out of curiousity, what's your aversion to Kodi? It's a fully capable jukebox software package at it's core. It can also stream internet radio from all over the world, including police and other emergency channels and it can even be used for karaoke sessions should the drunken occasion arise by automatically finding lyrics to your whole library and displaying them highlighted in motion with EQ effects on-the-fly. What's not to like?

[GTR_BOSS]

I just want something simple that can be used within the ES menu.

Used kodi before and not a massive fan ti be honest. Very capable programme but I want something simple, that's just my preference.

I also could not get kodi working with the controller when I had it running.

[mediamogul]

@GTR_BOSS said in Is there a dedicated music player for Retropie?:

I just want something simple

Ah, gotchya. Kodi can indeed be a world unto itself. When I first showed it to my brother, he compared it to an ever expanding series of rooms.

I also could not get kodi working with the controller when I had it running.

Previously, controller support in Kodi was very much an afterthought and results were hit and mostly miss. Among other big new features, Kodi 17 (set for final release any day now) is all about adding full and proper controller support for the first time. Of course this won't address the issue of it being more than what you're looking for, but it's a welcome addition to many none the less.

[backstander]

@GTR_BOSS

I know there are background music tweaks but im after a dedicated player where we can select tracks/albums/shuffle etc and have some control over our music files.

There is a couple ES background music scripts floating around the forums here. They just play songs from a directory and should stop/fade out the music when you start an emulator. Then when you exit the game, the music picks up right where it left off.

This is the one I could find but I think there's another one as well:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/347/background-music-continued-from-help-support

@mediamogul

and it can even be used for karaoke sessions should the drunken occasion arise by automatically finding lyrics to your whole library

The true karaoke MP3-G/CD+G support had been removed recently in Kodi v16 "Jarvis". I read the reason they removed it was they didn't have a developer to maintain that feature.

[GTR_BOSS]

Fingers crossed in the future someone will create a dedicated music playing programme. So surprised it's not been done yet.

Ah well until then......

[backstander]

@GTR_BOSS
I keep hearing about RuneAudio but I haven't actually tried it. I wonder if it can be easily installed with RetroPie (meaning that it doesn't need very many extra libraries).

[mediamogul]

@backstander said in Is there a dedicated music player for Retropie?:

The true karaoke MP3-G/CD+G support had been removed recently

Unfortunately, it had been going downhill for a while. However, you can still get DIY karaoke support natively with a few less features by just assigning a lyrics module to the basic Kodi audio player. Every time a song is played, it will search for the lyrics online and display them highlighted in yellow at the appropriate time as the song progresses.

[backstander]

@mediamogul

However, you can still get DIY karaoke support natively

I'll have to play around with that. Thanks for the explanation.
I remember XBMC having karaoke support back in the day and when I got RetroPie setup and realized I could install Kodi, I got out my old MP3+G files but found out Kodi didn't support them anymore :`(

@GTR_BOSS
Other music playing Raspberry Pi projects:

Mopidy - plays music from local disk, Spotify, SoundCloud, Google Play Music, and more
https://www.mopidy.com/

Volumio - The Open Audiophile Music Player
https://volumio.org/

Pi MusicBox - streaming music from RPi to other devices? or steam music from your phone to your RPi?
http://www.pimusicbox.com/

[EVEGames]

@GTR_BOSS ,
I'm looking for the same thing as you. What I would love to see is the old SK Jukebox ported to Linux:

Or a reasonable facsimile thereof. A basic, joystick/controller controlled MP3 Jukebox. I'm on the hunt, and if I come across anything, I'll be sure to post it here. Please do the same. Thanks!
-Dave

[EVEGames]

Ok, 12 minutes after my last post, I came across some notes I took a while ago on this subject, and I think I have a line on something that might fit the bill. From the old petRockBlog:
http://blog.petrockblock.com/forums/topic/how-to-add-skgjukebox-instead-of-using-kodi/
In that topic, @zerojay made a post on 03/22/2016 at 04:34. The jist of it is, he ported the deadbeef music player to RetroPie. There are plenty of how-tos to be found about installing and running deadbeef on a pi, but none that I could find about integrating it into Emulationstation on a RetroPie build. The instructions on how to install it are clear in zerojay's README.md, but I am too much of a GitHub and Linux newbie to know the answer to this question - is there a way to install ONLY deadbeef from zerojay's RetroPie-Extra repo? There's a lot of good content in that repo, but at the moment, I am only looking to add deadbeef to my build.
Any suggestions from users of this repo (or, of course, @zerojay himself!) would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
-Dave

[mediamogul]

@EVEGames said in Is there a dedicated music player for Retropie?:

none that I could find about integrating it into Emulationstation on a RetroPie build

This may help:
https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Ports#how-to-adapt-to-other-gamessoftware

[EVEGames]

Good call, @mediamogul , at a minimum one should be able to integrate deadbeef manually under the Ports menu item by following those instructions. That does help, thank you for pointing that out.
Upon closer inspection of @zerojay's RetroPie-Extra Readme file, I think installing his repo adds new items to the RetroPie setup script... my fear was that everything, by default, would all get installed at once. But I don't think that's the case. Gonna give it a try tonight and report my findings back here.
Thanks

[momaw27]

Looking forward to what you find out!

[EVEGames]

My bad, @momaw27 , I did not yet follow through on that investigation. Finally got my hands on an XBox360 controller and receiver and have been configuring that. But this is next on my to-do list :)

[momaw27]

@EVEGames No worries dude! I'm in no hurry :)

[AlexMurphy]

Has anyone got this working? I installed the script and built from source last night. Everything went without a hitch. Unfortunately it launches but crashes when you attempt to play a file. This is a known issue with permissions to run X as root, zerojay even mentions it in /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/ports/deadbeef.shUnfortunately the fix suggested no longer works. I know something similar was happening to the desktop a while ago and was fixed. What was the fix @herb_fargus? Any help would be appreciated.

rp_module_help="If $md_id crashes back to emulationstation, it may be because the user you are running as does not have permission to launch X on its own. You can fix this by running 'dpkg-reconfigure x11-common' as root and then selecting $user or 'Anybody'."

[zerojay]

For the record, the fix didn't work because the package name changed from x11-common to xserver-xorg-legacy. Running 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg-legacy' and selecting Anybody should work.

[nick44]

@EVEGames I have installed the Fruitbox jukebox Like an emulator and I have set the playlists to be how I choose games

[Dekawar]

@GTR_BOSS is there a WinAMP that need to find that for Amiga. but that would be cool for the Pi