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

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      Codafire @MapleStory
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      @maplestory i dont know why but this works perfect in my rasp3 but in the rasp4 i follow the same guide but always start with the same song. any way to make a random music selection at start?

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        ICYBAWSS
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        when i do sudo nano /home/pi/.bashrc, retropie_welcome does not show up. im using a pi 4 btw

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          Logiurser09
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          i have no idea where to put my mp3 file

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              luckyluca @Soryn79
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              @Soryn79 said in Quick and easy guide for adding music to Emulatonstation on RetroPie. Noob friendly!:

              I recommend changing:

              while pgrep omxplayer >/dev/null; do sleep 1; done
              (sleep 10; mpg123 -Z /home/pi/bgm/*.mp3 >/dev/null 2>&1) &
              emulationstation #auto
              

              to this: (the --no-splash is optional)

              emulationstation --no-splash &
              while pgrep omxplayer >/dev/null; do sleep 1; done
              (mpg123 -Z /home/pi/bgm/*.mp3 >/dev/null 2>&1) #auto
              

              Changing it so that it starts after ES loads just makes more sense to me. This makes sure that the music will always start 1 second after the video ends regardless of video length.

              Hi there, I tried your version and whilst it works beatifully on startup, it breaks emulationstation when pressing F4, it just hangs on a blank screen.

              I thought I'd let you know.

              Any ideas?

              Best!
              Luca

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