EmulationStation Menu Music

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).

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.

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 and put some Sega-inspired MP3 or OGG files in /userdata/music/megadrive/ folder, and other more Nintendo-like into /userdata/music/snes/.

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.

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.