Quick and easy guide for adding music to Emulatonstation on RetroPie. Noob friendly!

cyperghost

@Naprosnia may I ask which application do you use to play emulated soundtracks? Can you extend to play module files too?

Naprosnia

@cyperghost hello, check audacious application files support. When i release the new version i post the files supported for BGM Player. I know that audacious support some module files, but i need to "unlock" it on bgm player. Google for audacious supported files, if you see some of your interest, tell me and i add its support to bgm player.
Because of the way i implemented the application on bgm, i need to add the file type to the bgm player settings so it can manage to play it.

Naprosnia

Version 2 released. Go to https://github.com/Naprosnia/RetroPie_BGM_Player and check all the new stuff.
Tomorrow i record a new video.

Naprosnia

New video:

cyperghost

@Naprosnia Yes I see audacious is your new player now. It seems very versatile. How is the CPU load?

Naprosnia

@cyperghost, very lightweight. I try with Game Music Emulation Library compiled by me, and it lags a little. But with audacious, it works very well.

WarC0zes

@Naprosnia We can update directly from the "update" option or we have to reinstall the script ?

cyperghost

@Naprosnia There is still space for some software tweaks for sure but all in all ... well done!
@WarC0zes Yes, the update script wasn't changed to much so the update via menu should work

WarC0zes

@Naprosnia Really cool the version 2.0, great job. Thanks.

Sibby

@Naprosnia 2.0 is awesome! I don't know how it all works but somehow this should be considered for an optional RP package. Oh, enjoy your burger too :)

gumpy123

Here's an interesting one, I changed the ES boot logo just fine, I removed the ES boot logo with the --no-splash tag but you cant have background music and not have the ES boot screen, it only works if I've got both. It does however work if i go into the setup.sh file and move the emulationstation --no-splash to the top and move the omx bgm music player to the bottom. I get no ES splash but music dont work. Unless it's the other way around then it works

Naprosnia

@gumpy123 hello, You use my version of bgm player? Can you post here autostart.sh content? I use omx splashscreen and the --no-splash for ES and everything works.

bloodykean

@Naprosnia is there an option to implement this to the Ubuntu scenario. I have installed RetroPie to Ubuntu and the script works... but autostart on boot and start stop doesn't... any help?

RetroMarty

I followed the original tutorial, all was fine, I started up a game, the music faded out perfectly, but then there was no audio for the game. I am running the latest version of retropie on a raspberry 2.

mitu

@RetroMarty Is your sound working if you don't install the music scripts ? What emulator is started when you have no sound ?

RetroMarty

@mitu Sorry, I was working with a different tutorial, I got this one in and just need help with how to access the file to put in th mp3s

mitu

@RetroMarty You'll need to copy the *.mp3 files into the /home/pi/bgm folder and they'll be played from there.

RetroMarty

@mitu thank you so much, it works perfectly!

liveforeva

@MapleStory I'm having a problem. I've got my mp3s to work but only when I f4 out of emulation station. When i go back into emulation station the music continues but if I shut down or reset my music will not play untill I f4 out of emulation station. Any help would be appreciated thanks.

cyperghost

@liveforeva You likely setted. autostart.sh wrong ... real deal is this setup

(sleep 10; mpg123 -q -Z /home/pi/bgm/*.mp3 < /dev/null) &
emulationstation #auto

Check also if your path, where the music tracks are residing is /home/pi/bgm
I think this will help you in some kind of making bgm for your images work again