@jnbridges and you could always use something like this to get that arcade sound you were talking about.

@retropiecase you can scrape videos with Skyscraper, if that's what you mean: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Scraper/#lars-muldjords-skyscraper

@buzz no, as i dont know if there is an issue with the script, or if there is a common issue with retropie settings that other run into with this using this script

@buzzardbait said in Integrated Music Player for RetroPie [IMP] 2021.10 (Background Music for RetroPie and More):

Would it be possible to have an option where upon startup it would RANDOMLY select either A or B and play in shuffle mode, provided the user has set up both folders? Not dissimilar to a theme randomizer in EmulationStation.

Pretty sure this is possible.
Pretty sure this is a cool idea.
I will see what I can do.
Thanks for the input.

@rommell76 Ah, I didn't know that. Good to hear you did get it working, though.

@retropie start with a specific % volume

mpg123 -f "32768" # Volume % "100"
mpg123 -f "29484" # Volume % "90 "
mpg123 -f "26208" # Volume % "80 "
mpg123 -f "22932" # Volume % "70 "
mpg123 -f "19656" # Volume % "60 "
mpg123 -f "16380" # Volume % "50 "
mpg123 -f "13104" # Volume % "40 "
mpg123 -f "9828" # Volume % "30 "
mpg123 -f "6552" # Volume % "20 "
mpg123 -f "3276" # Volume % "10 "
mpg123 -f "1638" # Volume % "5 "

@dmmarti said in Music, Video, Photo & Comic Support (Submission):

@Rydo

Can I ask how you determined the following values?

/dev/input/jsX 0x3C 0x3E 0x2B 0x2D 0x70 0x71 0x69 0x6F

On a fresh RetroPie image using a wired Nintendo Switch controller, my button assignments do not match up to yours.

My device name is:

deviceName="BDA NSW wired controller"

So I'm curious how you determined those hex values.

Thanks,

David

The joy2key program is hard programed.
/dev/input/jsX means it is applied to all Linux joystick.
The hex escape codes are ansi keyboard codes for keypresses that overlay buttons in the order of 'left', 'right', 'up', 'down', 'a', 'b', 'x', 'y'

0x3C 0x3E 0x2B 0x2D 0x70 0x71 0x69 0x6F

I would suspect your buttons are backwards (Japanese style) so I would move the value around like this.

0x3C 0x3E 0x2B 0x2D 0x71 0x70 0x6F 0x69

@ghostshot1398 i dont know, since i dont use that BGM.
you will have to do a search for
MusicStateMachine.py if you are using WinSCP there is a file search tab that will work

if not give me a day and ill load up a clean load and i can do a little digging

@caver01

Correct when piping through the HDMI all is well with sound levels. The only reason I wanted to use the AV jack is so I could play Pandora with the TV off.

I cannot even install Firefox. ???

I got the image from from https://www.raspberrypi.org/software/operating-systems/

"Raspberry Pi OS with desktop and recommended software
Release date: January 11th 2021
Kernel version: 5.4"

@lochnagar I know the music on Tomba II is glitchy and plays the wrong track on the default (and only emulator if on a pi) psx emulator. It’s old and buggy and hasn’t really been updated with any significance in a long time. But it runs very smoothly on low end hardware and runs most games just fine. There is no fix unless someone updates the emulator to fix said bugs.

RetroPie doesn't have any music in EmulationStation - are you using a 3rd party image ?

@freddyja script.zip is not avalaible, I can't use this guide.

I tried adding this after I did a fresh install of the "retropie-buster-4.6-rpi2_rpi3" image... it won't load. I configured my wifi...is it the new build that needs an updated script?

@bluestang
Great, glad it's working.
I removed the vc4 workaround stuff since it's not needed, and changed the init_delay to use seconds rather than milliseconds, since it's totally more useful with seconds (if people use video splashscreens).

The installer script was also updated to have a brand new file/directory selector for the initial song and music directory options, making them actually usable without having to pull out the keyboard.
Change Music Dir
Also fixed an issue with spaces in file paths and fixed some smaller niggling things (stopping used to spit out "Terminated blah blah...").

The only thing I'm planning at the moment is to maybe dynamically come up with some nice volume step values based off of fade_duration and max_volume to make just that little more "user-friendly" and remove that config option.

I'm fairly certain that most of the Disney tie-in games had chiptune versions of the music. I don't really have time to look up which songs charted right now but there's a lot of games that fall into that category.

Never mind ..figured out doom 2 tnt and plutonia are all 32 levels in size and share the music file names.

Just a heads up for people who are using a vertical screen setup through the Pi. This, unfortunately, broke the code and defaulted my screen to horizontal. I'd recommend backing up first before attempting this. There could be a way to revert the changes through the code, but for my case I'm just going to look up other alternatives.

Searching the forum I found this: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/9133/quick-and-easy-guide-for-adding-music-to-emulatonstation-on-retropie-noob-friendly

I personally use it at home and it's easy to setup.