Is there a dedicated music player for Retropie?

[backstander]

@mediamogul

However, you can still get DIY karaoke support natively

I'll have to play around with that. Thanks for the explanation.
I remember XBMC having karaoke support back in the day and when I got RetroPie setup and realized I could install Kodi, I got out my old MP3+G files but found out Kodi didn't support them anymore :`(

@GTR_BOSS
Other music playing Raspberry Pi projects:

Mopidy - plays music from local disk, Spotify, SoundCloud, Google Play Music, and more
https://www.mopidy.com/

Volumio - The Open Audiophile Music Player
https://volumio.org/

Pi MusicBox - streaming music from RPi to other devices? or steam music from your phone to your RPi?
http://www.pimusicbox.com/

[EVEGames]

@GTR_BOSS ,
I'm looking for the same thing as you. What I would love to see is the old SK Jukebox ported to Linux:

Or a reasonable facsimile thereof. A basic, joystick/controller controlled MP3 Jukebox. I'm on the hunt, and if I come across anything, I'll be sure to post it here. Please do the same. Thanks!
-Dave

[EVEGames]

Ok, 12 minutes after my last post, I came across some notes I took a while ago on this subject, and I think I have a line on something that might fit the bill. From the old petRockBlog:
http://blog.petrockblock.com/forums/topic/how-to-add-skgjukebox-instead-of-using-kodi/
In that topic, @zerojay made a post on 03/22/2016 at 04:34. The jist of it is, he ported the deadbeef music player to RetroPie. There are plenty of how-tos to be found about installing and running deadbeef on a pi, but none that I could find about integrating it into Emulationstation on a RetroPie build. The instructions on how to install it are clear in zerojay's README.md, but I am too much of a GitHub and Linux newbie to know the answer to this question - is there a way to install ONLY deadbeef from zerojay's RetroPie-Extra repo? There's a lot of good content in that repo, but at the moment, I am only looking to add deadbeef to my build.
Any suggestions from users of this repo (or, of course, @zerojay himself!) would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
-Dave

[mediamogul]

@EVEGames said in Is there a dedicated music player for Retropie?:

none that I could find about integrating it into Emulationstation on a RetroPie build

This may help:
https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Ports#how-to-adapt-to-other-gamessoftware

[EVEGames]

Good call, @mediamogul , at a minimum one should be able to integrate deadbeef manually under the Ports menu item by following those instructions. That does help, thank you for pointing that out.
Upon closer inspection of @zerojay's RetroPie-Extra Readme file, I think installing his repo adds new items to the RetroPie setup script... my fear was that everything, by default, would all get installed at once. But I don't think that's the case. Gonna give it a try tonight and report my findings back here.
Thanks

[momaw27]

Looking forward to what you find out!

[EVEGames]

My bad, @momaw27 , I did not yet follow through on that investigation. Finally got my hands on an XBox360 controller and receiver and have been configuring that. But this is next on my to-do list :)

[momaw27]

@EVEGames No worries dude! I'm in no hurry :)

[AlexMurphy]

Has anyone got this working? I installed the script and built from source last night. Everything went without a hitch. Unfortunately it launches but crashes when you attempt to play a file. This is a known issue with permissions to run X as root, zerojay even mentions it in /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/ports/deadbeef.shUnfortunately the fix suggested no longer works. I know something similar was happening to the desktop a while ago and was fixed. What was the fix @herb_fargus? Any help would be appreciated.

rp_module_help="If $md_id crashes back to emulationstation, it may be because the user you are running as does not have permission to launch X on its own. You can fix this by running 'dpkg-reconfigure x11-common' as root and then selecting $user or 'Anybody'."

[zerojay]

For the record, the fix didn't work because the package name changed from x11-common to xserver-xorg-legacy. Running 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg-legacy' and selecting Anybody should work.