Comments on: How To Add MUSIC To RetroPie In 5 Commands! (Raspberry Pi)

By: Geoff

Geoff — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 22:23:54 +0000

Thank you for adding the undo changes option. My Emulation Station would no longer launch after I ran this script. And even though the script warned me, I didn’t do a backup before running it. (I had a backup, but it was a bunch of revisions ago) I thought I was hosed but running your undo option got it back up and running. I’ve since read in the comments above that Pi4 has some issues, I’ll leave it alone for now. First, time to go do a backup. 😉

Thanks again,
Geoff

By: ClassicGMR

ClassicGMR — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 23:14:39 +0000

I just installed this on a 4GB Raspbery Pi 4 powering a PiCade setup on RetroPie Buster 4.7.16. THANK YOU! It worked flawlessly. My setup is on a Kingston 128GB SD card and I am not using a USB drive if anyone wants to use this for a comparison.

By: installtekz

installtekz — Tue, 25 May 2021 12:39:03 +0000

In reply to jasper Boonen. The file (setup.sh) is not in your path (standard linux). You can use "cd" to change directories and "ls" to look for for it. Or you can download, uncompress and run the file again by following all 5 commands again from this blog post.

By: jasper Boonen

jasper Boonen — Tue, 25 May 2021 10:21:05 +0000

Hi
I can’t seem to access the menu to change the menu entries.
When I type “./setup.sh” in terminal, it says: ‘No such file or directory.’
Any idea how I can access this another way, or what I’m doing wrong?

Thanks in advance!

By: installtekz

installtekz — Sat, 22 May 2021 19:50:13 +0000

In reply to John Do.

1: run the script again by typing “./setup.sh”.
2: Select “m” from the menu and press “enter” (“Add/Remove Menu Entries”).
3: Press “y” or “n” then “enter” for each option. (“Show: Audio Settings? ” etc.)
4: Exit the script by pressing “q” from the menu.
5: Check that it has worked. (may need a reboot)

By: John Do

John Do — Sat, 22 May 2021 11:06:41 +0000

Hi
This works great! Thnx!
But can i still access the retropie config menu?
It has been replaced bij your custom music menu.
All other Pie setup/config options are gone.

By: installtekz

installtekz — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 11:32:36 +0000

In reply to LordShadow.

I think I understand this problem. If you use a USB drive for storing all of your games etc. then you need to have it plugged in before you run the script. This is because Retropie uses TWO possible “places” to store the mount folder (on USB or on SD Card) and it can’t use both at the same time.

It’s been a while since I done this but what I think happens is when Retropie boots up, it looks for the “RetroPie” folder on SD Card first to load up your settings. If the system doesn’t find this folder on the SD card it then looks for it on the USB drive.

You can try re-naming the ‘mount’ folder to see if the system detects the other ‘mount’ folder.
1. go to the command line (F4)
2. Run the command: sudo mv /home/pi/RetroPie /home/pi/RetroPie-backup
3. reboot
4a. If this has not fixed the problem then change the folder name back: sudo mv /home/pi/RetroPie-backup /home/pi/RetroPie
4b. reboot

If the system still detects 2 swapfiles then you may need to find and delete it in the RetroPie folder or delete the folder all together rather than renaming it to RetroPie-backup. However there’s a risk you may loose data!!

By: LordShadow

LordShadow — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 06:15:38 +0000

In reply to Jussi.

Same problem, When I start Retropie I get this error just before Emulation start: “Failed to start dphys-swapfile – setup mount/unmount and delete a swap file retropie” I can’t add new games, save or do anything else since I installed this script, it all stays as it was when I installed it. I also have a Pi 4 … I don’t know if all this information helps, but I hope we have a solution to this error soon 🙁

By: installtekz

installtekz — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:02:45 +0000

In reply to Jussi.

Thanks for the feedback. I don’t currently have a Raspberry Pi 4 and so I can’t look into this as of yet. Yes I created the script with an option to “uninstall” by restoring as much as possible back the way it was, but this has only been tested on a Raspberry Pi 3 . You can do this by selecting “Undo All Changes” from the scripts menu.
There is also an option in the menu to “show/hide” these menu options.
If anyone else has any comment on this then it would be appreciated.

By: Jussi

Jussi — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 10:09:09 +0000

Hi, I Think i was using this with my pi 3, but with 4 it seems to crash or lose gamepad and most of the menu items disappeared from the emulationstation setup after installation. Is there an easy way to unistall this?

reinstalling emulationstation did not work.