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.

@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

for me a project being 'commercial' in nature doesn't necessitate it making a profit. besides, eventually someone sells the bus...

@Addison good form, very good form! That is truly stunning. I wish I had a CNC machine even more now. I really like the aesthetic of the 70s one too. Something about the knobs I think. I'll bet you could even play pong on that.

@Becciboo81 Well, RetroPie doesn't include any BGM music scripts - so you must have installed 2 scripts that play at once. Check the usual places for startup scripts: /etc/rc.local (you'll need to use sudo to edit this file). /opt/retropie/configs/all/autostart.sh and remove one of the BGM scripts.

@Protocultor Protocultor for President :D Thank you very much, it works. Now the only thing left I need to know is, can you change the deadzone amount of the left analog stick somewhere? I know you can change it in the option for ingame movements but it doesen't apply for the menu navigation and when I move up and down it often register a left or right movement and messing up my settings. UPDATE: Nevermind I found the settings in the config folder inside zdoom.ini

@PJ7 Not really possible at the moment, because the music is not part of Emulationstation. In the future, it might be possible by adding a script for the 'sleep' /'screensaver-start' event in Emulationstation that would stop the music.

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

@mitu Ahh, makes sense.

Hey guys, yes I like that one too thanks @Stuart2773 but it sounds too much like the snes classic menu as I have the original on my Nintendo build already. I do like the one @Clyde posted but only like the start of it, I might have a play and crop and loop before it all starts going crazy haha.

@mitu said in Add option to adjust BG volume in emulationstation: @lesk said in Add option to adjust BG volume in emulationstation: But now I'm wondering if there is a way to add a option in the menu of emulationstation to adjust the volume of the BG music. SInce the BG music is not part of ES, why would this options appear there ? The script has it's own volume set, embedded in the script, so it would ignore any external settings. If you'd like to change the volume - modify the script and change the maxvolume setting at the beginning of the script, it's at 0.50 (which I assume is 50% of max available). I want it there because its easier and more accessible to adjust the volume from the ES menu. If I'm playing on my Retropie setup and feel like adjusting the volume of the BG music. I don't want to use SSH, or go to my computer to navigate to the script, change it, and then restart. I've seen people adding custom item to the menu before, and I just want to know if this is possible. And how to do it ^^ I'm not good at programing, so figuring this out for by myself is kinda impossible at this moment. If the script will ignore any external settings. Maybe there is a another way of doing this?

This is not currently supported in our emulation station.

@thelostsoul said in What music do you listen to currently?: @Clyde Kurzgesagt, one of my favorite channels. :> I'm a fan of both the English and the German versions for many years now. As far as I can tell, they're very accurate but at the same time short and entertaining enough for the average person with today's commonly short attention span. 😉 @KN4THX said in What music do you listen to currently?: FFVII Classical Guitar Ah, that brings back memories … and an urge to play the game again, although it's not very realistic today with less free time and more things that demand a part of it – and considering that I just started my first playthrough of Secret of Mana. 😊 My all-time favorite tune from FFVII was "Those Chosten by the Planet", played when Sephiroth showed up the first time. It still gives me the creeps … These two are the best Remakes I could find on YouTube. One more orchestral and one more synthetic on par with the original:

@bleckman Look at how the Ports scripts are created - for instance Kodi - and you can replicate it to start the media player. Install Kodi, look at the kodi.sh script that it creates in the ports folder, and copy it and replace the Kodi start sequence with the command to start the program - from the author's instructions.

Search on YouTube, easy hax background music. I am using his work, very simple script he made for background music.

@jakrchris said in Music Visualization for Kodi: I apologize of course, but please note that I only used it for the Installation tools, not pirated content. It read that way. Plus, it can be difficult to keep up with all the various copyright violators out there. Glad to hear the visuals are working for you.

@mitu said in Background Music Compatible with Video Preview Audio?: @westleigh77 It depends on the script you're using. There's a version that stops/fades the music when it detects certain programs being run - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/347/background-music-continued-from-help-support/. Depending on the video player you're using, you can configure it to stop the music if it detects the video being played, but I don't think it can play the music just on the ES main screen since it cannot detect that. mitu always being super helpful :) Here is an updated list of emulators/background music apps (although for this specific case i think you only need to add "omplayer.bin"): emulatornames = ["retroarch","ags","uae4all2","uae4arm","capricerpi","linapple","hatari","stella","atari800","xroar","vice","daphne","reicast","pifba","osmose","gpsp","jzintv","basiliskll","mame","advmame","dgen","openmsx","mupen64plus","gngeo","dosbox","ppsspp","simcoupe","scummvm","snes9x","pisnes","frotz","fbzx","fuse","gemrb","cgenesis","zdoom","eduke32","lincity","love","kodi","alephone","micropolis","openbor","openttd","opentyrian","cannonball","tyrquake","ioquake3","residualvm","xrick","sdlpop","uqm","stratagus","wolf4sdl","solarus","drastic","coolcv","PPSSPPSDL","moonlight","Xorg","smw","omxplayer.bin"]