Its is the best method.

That's ok mitu. I would be willing to run a .bat file in the background if need be. I tried doing it myself and I was successful getting music to load up before the main screen finishes loading up on EmulationStation, as well as when you exit out of a game and go back to the menu. The problem I'm having is getting just one splashscreen to randomly load up/play before the loading screen and stopping/closing the media player that displays it. The code for my splashtest.bat is the following: @ECHO OFF REM Your splashscreens file path: start "" --play and exit "C:\Program Files (x86)\VLC\vlc.exe" -L "C:\Users\Username\Music\Playlists\Splashscreens.wpl" REM Kill your media player: C:\Program Files (x86)\VLC\vlc.exe /F REM Run the frontend (EmulationStation example): start "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\EmulationStation\emulationstation.exe" REM Run the media player (WMPlayer example): start "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe" -L "C:\Users\Username\Music\Playlists\EmulationStation.wpl" If anyone here has ideas on any mistakes you can see or a better way of executing this, please let me know. A big thank you goes out to those who can provide these answers :-D.

@mitu success - I'm now in. Thank you so much for your help - much appreciated and sorry for my daft questions

@mitu said in BGM in Ubuntu Desktop 18.04: @dbrown1986 said in BGM in Ubuntu Desktop 18.04: I think Ubuntu wouldn't allow it since it was a 'hidden' folder. First time I hear this kind of - obviously wrong - explanation. Check the permissions on the folder and make sure your $USER owns the folder where the scripts are saved. You don't need to use sudo to edit something that's in your home folder. Could also been something I mucked up; since I installed using net-inst, I checked the permissions and they looked fine.

@thestarglider My pleasure mate, I'm glad I could help :)

@mitu ok, i think i get it now. im using this as a crash course in writing scripts, so im sorry if i dont understand how this should work. but this is a huge help, thank you.

@cyperghost i will try it out ... thx for helping so fast

@prog-amateur I would also like to know the steps taken to add BGM to RetroPie. This would be a great feature to be added

I think I got the OGST case code all finalized, i'll do some testing to make sure everything still works on the Pi and possibly release the code later this week. Also i'm still having problems trying to write images to the framebuffer for the ODROID and other linux systems (basically what pngview does for the Pi). If anyone wants to help I would appreciate it :)

@Eric_McTrainshit No with this script is is possible to realize fade in and fade out of any music. It has nothing to do with the player or file format itself. I assumed I wrote that comment because someone asked for feature like the python script for BGM has.

@MapleStory said in Quick and easy guide for adding music to Emulatonstation on RetroPie. Noob friendly!: I hope this helps some of you out and if there's any questions, please feel free to ask! Also, if there's any suggestions in how to tidy this guide up, please let me know as well. Looks great but how does one turn it off, you ask?

@cyperghost i never really hear it but i dont have the BGM up that much. so for me its all good :)