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

[Codafire]

@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?

[ICYBAWSS]

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

[Logiurser09]

i have no idea where to put my mp3 file

[luckyluca]

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[luckyluca]

@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