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 :)

So this is an updated version of the music player with additional info to selected mp3 file. See bottom line .... Get it from here

@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.

I know this is an old topic but since it's still relevant, I figured I would post this. I went with the original method listed here as I saw that before I found out about the v2.0... I had a video splash screen and I noticed that the autostart.sh files addressed this wrong. Using the way it was posted originally, after the video, it kicks back to the pi boot screen for 1 second (sleep 1) and then starts ES. This stops people who want the video to pass the ES loading screen as it forces ES to wait until after the 1 second sleep after the video ends to start ES. I recommend changing: while pgrep omxplayer >/dev/null; do sleep 1; done (sleep 10; mpg123 -Z /home/pi/bgm/*.mp3 >/dev/null 2>&1) & emulationstation #auto to this: (the --no-splash is optional) emulationstation --no-splash & while pgrep omxplayer >/dev/null; do sleep 1; done (mpg123 -Z /home/pi/bgm/*.mp3 >/dev/null 2>&1) #auto Changing it so that it starts after ES loads just makes more sense to me. This makes sure that the music will always start 1 second after the video ends regardless of video length.

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