Naprosnia / RetroPie_BGM_Player

A simple background music player to implement on RetroPie and Emulation Station.

RetroPie BGM Player v2.0

A simple background music player with emulation support, to implement on RetroPie and Emulation Station based on this guide from RetroPie forum.

Installation

1. wget -N https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Naprosnia/RetroPie_BGM_Player/master/install.sh
2. chmod +x install.sh
3. ./install.sh

Usage

• ES setting OTHER SETTINGS / PARSE GAMELISTS ONLY should be OFF, otherwise you can not see RetroPie-BGM-Player options menu.
• To change settings, go to RetroPie-BGM-Player on RetroPie settings menu.
• Fade effect is disabled by default, go to RetroPie-BGM-Player settings menu to enable it.
• You don't like my music?! Easy for you, simply go to your roms folder, and inside you will find a new folder called "music", you can put there the musics you want. You can now organize your files with subfolders as you wish.

Supported File Types

Emulator / Name	Extension
MPEG-2 Audio Layer III	.mp3
Spectrum ZX	.ay
Sega Genesis / Megadrive	.gym
NEC PC Engine / TurboGrafx-16	.hes
MSX / Other Z80	.kss
GameBoy	.gbs
Nintendo	.nsf
Nintendo Ext. Support	.nsfe
Nintendo DS	.2sf
Atari SAP	.sap
Super Nintendo	.spc
Sega VGM / VGZ	.vgm / .vgz
Vortex	.vtx
Playstation Audio	.psf / .psf2

Options

• General Settings
  • Player - Change BGM player or select what file extensions you want to play.
    • MP3 Player
    • Game Music Emulator
    • Both Players
    • Custom File Types
  • Volume - Change BGM Player volume.
  • Toggle - Set BGM Player ON/OFF.
• Play Settings
  • Fade Effect - This option enables the fading effect when music start or stop playing.
  • Non Stop - This option keep BGM Player playing while you play games.
  • Delay - Change the amount of seconds that you want to delay the BGM Player start when EmulationStation load.
• Player Stuff
  • Reload Audio Files - If you add new songs/files, this option reload them, or restart your system to reload automatically.
• BGM Update - Update RetroPie BGM Player

Next Release Preview

• Add support to more file types.

Video

Uninstall

1. wget -N https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Naprosnia/RetroPie_BGM_Player/master/uninstall.sh
2. chmod +x uninstall.sh
3. ./uninstall.sh

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