Selection Music - what format?

[eXo]

I am trying to setup selection music for my different emulators. I have found specific songs I'd like to play over each menu (such as the theme to the old mario cartoon for the NES menu).

Initially I pointed the selection music folder to a directory that just had the file I wanted to play, which was named nes.mp3 - but no music played. I then tried pointing it to a directory with several music files in it, and immediately one of the files started playing.

I did a raw dump of the nes.mp3 file to wav, and then re-encoded it to mp3 with standard settings (in case it was a strange compression or something the first time around). It still wouldn't play however.

So, my question is - does the file have to be in a specific form? Whether that means a certain length, a certain filename type, a certain encode quality, etc...

If not that, then does the selection music folder require a certain number of files? Any help on this would be appreciated - a forum search on "selection music" only turned up the feature request thread.

EDIT: After messing around with it further I have noticed that sometimes the music will play. It seems to be about half the time. I'm guessing it has to do with whether or not the video from the main menu is hogging the sound device at the time gameex transfers to the emulator menu.

[bkenobi]

Just a thought, but try turning off the background music if you have it on (arcadeambiance.mp3 usually). Also, turned off AVI snap audio.

[Tom Speirs]

Ive just looked at this, and there seems to be a bug if there is only 1 file in the folder. Ill try and get it fixed for the next release, but the workaround for the momet is just to make a copy of the file so you have two the same in the folder.

[eXo]

Ive just looked at this, and there seems to be a bug if there is only 1 file in the folder. Ill try and get it fixed for the next release, but the workaround for the momet is just to make a copy of the file so you have two the same in the folder.

Thanks Tom, I'll do that.