Problem background music

[trusto481]

Hello

I would like to add background music to my raspberry pi0 with retropie version 4.4
the problem is that I tried to follow the guides with putty but I just can't make it work ...
doing the procedure on putty always gives me some errors and listallation is not successful ...
do you know if there is another procedure dedicated and easier to install?

I tried them all but nothing

[Efriim]

A link to the guide you used along with the type of music would help.

I think that you will need to install with root (elevated priveleges/adminstrator) the command sudo will give you temporary root
sudo apt install mpg123

the rest in this should explain.
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/9133/quick-and-easy-guide-for-adding-music-to-emulatonstation-on-retropie-noob-friendly

there is another guide that I used create a random playlist.... somewhere.

[BobHarris]

These are the installation steps for the program I'm using (different from mpg123):

Press F4 in emulationstation and type the following:
sudo apt-get install python-pygame
(You’ll need to type “y” when prompted)
mkdir -p ~/PyScripts
wget -O ~/PyScripts/bgmusic.py http://pastebin.com/raw/KpUaZuSz
sudo nano /etc/rc.local
Insert “(sudo python /home/pi/PyScripts/bgmusic.py) &” (without quotes) on any line before the “exit 0” line
Press Ctrl+o, Enter, then Ctrl+x to save changes and exit the editor
Connect through Windows to \retropie\roms\ and create a folder called “music”. Place your mp3s in there.
If you want to edit the script you can use this command to edit:
nano ~/PyScripts/bgmusic.py
When finished you can press Ctrl+o, Enter, then Ctrl+x to save and exit.

(In the file called bgmusic.py there is a list of emulator names. A few are missing (for example the PSP emulator). This means that the music does not stop playing when starting a game in such an emulator. But that is solved easily by adding the name of the emulator to the file. To find out the name of an emulator, start a game in the specific emulator, then open Winscp (or a similar program) on your computer, connect to the Pi, open a terminal and type 'ps -A'. With this command you see all the processes running on the Pi. )

It's a very nice little program. Music plays randomly and it fades in and out in between games and, in the bgmusic.py file, you can set a song that always plays when booting the Pi (I'm using the PS1 intro music)