This is cool as hell, so I didn’t want it to get buried in some random thread about BBC Micro emulators.
I’ll make a long story short first; sound isn’t working in beebem, the BBC Micro emulator. I came up with an interesting solution that others may be interested in. While I have beebem running, random .MP3s play from an HDD attached to my pi.
Here’s how I did it:
First I installed MPG123 and FAPG and ran it against a folder on the HDD attached to my pi that happens to contain a copy of my mp3 collection to create an m3u playlist containing everything.
sudo apt-get install mpg123
sudo apt-get install fapg
fapg --format=m3u --output=/home/pi/playlist.m3u -r /hdd/Music
^^ your path would obviously be different
Then I edited /opt/retropie/configs/beebem/emulators.cfg to look like the following (I kept the old musicless one in there just because):
beebem-0.0.13="/home/pi/.beebem/beebem-0.0.13/src/beebem %ROM%"
default="beebem-0.0.13-music"
beebem-0.0.13-music="/opt/retropie/configs/beebem/beebmusic.sh %ROM%"
Next I created a file called beebmusic.sh in /opt/retropie/configs/beebem which contains this script:
#!/bin/bash
ROM=$1
mpg123 -z -@ /home/pi/playlist.m3u &
/home/pi/.beebem/beebem-0.0.13/src/beebem $ROM
sleep 1
sudo killall mpg123
Now, mpg123 will play random mp3s out of my collection while I’m playing BBC Micro. The music stops when I stop the emulator.
:)
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