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--- frontend_music [2020/05/03 03:51] – lbrpdx
+++ emulationstation:music [2021/12/04 07:18] (current) – amended atari
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-~~NOTOC~~
+====== EmulationStation Menu Music ======
-===== Frontend Music =====
-This is an option that you can enable or disable for the background music in the menus. You can adjust the loudness with the audio bar.
+===== Supported formats for frontend music =====
-It might be useful to disable front-end music if you use "random video" screensaver, otherwise you will get both sound outputs (screensaver and front-end) at the same time.
+Batocera **5.23** and up supports ''.mp3'' and ''.ogg'' files. Batocera **5.26** and up supports ''.wav'', ''.flac'' (stereo) and some popular chiptune mod tracker formats (''.mod'', ''.xm'', ''.s3m'', ''.stm'', ''.far'', ''.mtm'', ''.669'', ''.it'').
-Starting with 5.23, you can put sub-directories in ''/userdata/music/'' in order to have system-specific musics only played while you are browsing a system. For example, put in ''/userdata/music/nes/'' a set of MP3s you want to listen to, only when you are browsing your NES games catalog. And MP3s in ''/userdata/music/mame/'' folder will be played only when you browse the MAME games.
+From Batocera **5.26** and up, you can skip a song by pushing in the left stick ''[L3]'', or from the Quick Access shortcut menu. While on the system list, press ''[SELECT]'' button on your controller to open the Quick Access menu, then **SKIP TO NEXT SONG**.
-Once you have the MP3s ordered by system subfolders, you can still play them all regardless of what system you are browsing by turning "off" the option in **SOUND SETTINGS** -> **ONLY PLAY SYSTEM-SPECIFIC MUSIC FOLDER**.
+{{ :main_menu_selectbutton.png?nolink&500 |The Quick Access menu.}}
-==== Supported formats for frontend music ====
+You can place your custom music in ''/userdata/music/'', upon which your custom music will be randomly cycled through in EmulationStation. This will disable the default music from being cycled in, but you can always find them at ''/usr/share/batocera/music/'' ([[https://github.com/batocera-linux/batocera.linux/blob/master/package/batocera/emulationstation/es-background-musics/music|online equivalent]]) if you'd like to copy them back in.
-Batocera 5.23+ supports **.mp3** and **.ogg** files.
+Music included with older versions of Batocera can be found at the [[https://github.com/Hew-ux/batocera-assets/tree/main/archive/music|Batocera assets repository]].
+===== System-specific music folders =====
+Some users like to have different songs played back when browsing different gaming systems. For example, they like to listen to some Sega-oriented themes while they are browsing their Megadrive library, and Nintendo-inspired songs when browsing their SNES games.
+In order to do this on Batocera, you can create subfolders in your ''/userdata/music/'' directory to match up with the systems recognized by your theme. If using the default theme, you can identify what the folder names should be based on the system's logo's filename at https://github.com/fabricecaruso/es-theme-carbon/tree/master/art/logos. For example, the Wonderswan system at https://github.com/fabricecaruso/es-theme-carbon/blob/master/art/logos/wonderswan.svg ends with ''wonderswan.svg'', so the folder structure for that would look like:
+<code>
+/userdata/music/wonderswan/epic-music-track.ogg
+</code>
+Most systems share their subfolder name with their [[:systems|system shortname]], but there are exceptions (such as the above example).
+==== Limiting selected music ====
+If you enable **ONLY PLAY SYSTEM-SPECIFIC MUSIC FOLDER**, you will only get a random selection of the songs located in ''/userdata/music/megadrive/'' when you browse your Megadrive games, but none from your SNES subfolder. This is useful for if you have a fully fleshed-out song-list for all of your systems.
+<WRAP center round important>
+The song files that are present in ''/userdata/music/'' will be picked up randomly for any system (whether you have system-specific songs or not).
+</WRAP>
+If you disable **ONLY PLAY SYSTEM-SPECIFIC MUSIC FOLDER**, Batocera will randomly pick a song in your ''/userdata/music/'' directory and any of its sub-folders to play.
-Batocera 5.26+ additionally supports **.wav**, **.flac** (stereo) and popular popular chiptune mod tracker formats (**.mod**, **.xm**, **.s3m**, **.far**, **.mtm**, **.669**)