Help with a few things (music and videos on Big Box)

[Alan Bun]

Hey, I just purchased premium the other week and have been taking some time getting as much media as possible for my library. I had a few questions I hope someone might be able to help with.

 

1. I'm trying to set up full soundtracks for my games in the most space efficient way possible.  I use Foobar2000 for a lot of soundtracks, as it can play files in formats that other media players cannot and as a result they tend to be much smaller. As an example, the Super Mario 64 soundtrack is 1.18Mb total but the files are in a .miniusf format. Foobar does have the ability to convert to WAV, but it then turns the full soundtrack to almost 800Mb instead, which wouldn't be ideal memory wise if I done this with all my games. 

Is there either a space efficient way to store soundtracks that Launchbox will still play (i.e. if I compress them), or is there any way I can either have Launchbox play the files through Foobar or have it accept the .miniusf files?

I'm quite comfortable with how to actually play the full soundtracks, by creating an M3U playlist, so no problem there, just trying to save some space if possible. 

 

2. Is there any way to skip the tracks when playing the full soundtrack on Big Box? This isn't really an issue, as if I want to listen to the soundtrack I can just use these other programs, but I like being able to browse Big Box, check some manuals and maybe listen to a track or two, and I just wondered if it was possible to cycle through the playlist at all?

 

3. I was using an intro video for my individual consoles on the Unified theme on Big Box, but I recently downloaded a bunch of game snaps from Emumovies and Launchbox automatically kept them in the same folder as my console video, so now Big Box just plays one of these at random. Instead of having to go back through and change each game video individually and move them somewhere else, can I tell Unified to play the intro movie for the console from a very specific filepath?

 

Any help with the above would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

[Kondorito]

Hey Alan, what's up. I'll reply back in the same format as you:

1. I assume you have already tried placing your .miniusf files in the Music Background folder and when enabling the background music in BigBox nothing happens. Have you tried changing the extension to .mp3 (manually, not converting the files per se) to trick the BB player into reproducing theme anyways?

2. You can map keys/buttons in the BigBox options, and set specific shortcuts to next song and previous song, as well as volume control and anything else that happens in there. Just go to the Options menu, scroll almost all the way down and you will see the mappings menu.

3. When you say intro videos for the consoles, I am assuming you mean the platform videos before actually entering each one o them. Launchbox has one path for main platform videos, and another path for the games pertaining to that platform.
Path for the platform videos is LaunchBox/Videos/Platforms/<Platform Name.mp4>
Path for game videos is LaunchBox/Videos/<Platform Name>/<Game Name.mp4>

Hope the above helps  

 

[Alan Bun]

Hey, thanks a lot for your reply!

all the suggestions worked, so it’s been a great help! Thanks so much!