Poll - Your arcade machine soundtrack

[Vigo]

I couldn't find any sort of poll on this topic before, but I am redoing some things on a my Front End, and trying to decide what route to now take for background music. I thought it would kinda be a fun poll at the same time.

Any thoughts or ideas are appreciated. 

[drventure]

Interesting. As mine isn't completely functional yet, it's kind of a mixed back. My intent is to have it function as a jukebox in addition to arcade duties.

But I love ahofle's "arcade ambience" so it's likely it'll factor in at some point, just not sure how.

[BadMouth]

I have a separate jukebox that's usually playing.

[BigJon]

Interesting. As mine isn't completely functional yet, it's kind of a mixed back. My intent is to have it function as a jukebox in addition to arcade duties.

But I love ahofle's "arcade ambience" so it's likely it'll factor in at some point, just not sure how.

This is my thought exactly.  I haven't finished mine...but love the idea of having the ambient arcade bleeps and bloops playing quietly from it while it's running on idle.

[Vigo]

I have a separate jukebox that's usually playing.

There seems to already be a pretty large number of no music votes up on the poll. Is the seperate jukebox generally the reason for this?

I don't have a jukebox...yet, so I think want some background sound going on, for the time being.

[newmanfamilyvlogs]

My cab is a functional bit of house decor (aside from being the traditional permanent work in progress), but if had to choose a single song to play over and over it would be this one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deeper_Silence

I'd wire my whole house with speakers just to let this drift softly above the din of regular household noises (:

[Vigo]

Although I can't listen to more than few second sample of that song, using ambient music like that is a really cool concept I hadn't thought of. I might give it a shot. 

I also am a fan of the arcade ambient sound, but I have a 1990's cabinet. The 80's arcade sounds might feel a little odd with it.

[eds1275]

Mine isn't done yet, but it's a Spinal Tap themed machine to sit in my studio. It features random audio clips from the movie, the spinal tap soundtrack, and audio excerpts of different things spinal tap have done in the past - for example when Nigel Tufnel [Christopher Guest] visits the Marshall Factory to find out that the new JCM900 series amps go to twenty.

[yotsuya]

I use a mixture of the arcade ambient sounds and Journey's "Separate Ways". Works perfectly.

[mgb]

80s music jukebox and arcade ambience.

[garnerb350]

My front end is Hyperspin, and with the current settings it plays an mp3 file for each "class"... it automaticlly starts up with Mame...

1. Mame "Intergalactic" by Beastie Boys

2. Jukebox "Fuel" by Metallica

3. Atari 2600 (Old Atari commerical with audio)

4. NES-N64 ( any mario game mp3)

5. Sega ( Sonic Hedgehog mp3)

6. Movies (classic 21 century fox intro)

7. PC games (whatever soundtracks they have)

[Ginsu Victim]

Silence (well, except for the sound in preview videos for each game)

I used to have Arcade Ambiance 83, but got tired of it.

[MagicManPA]

No music for me, but I'm thinking of adding some background music for the menus.

[Malenko]

I prefer no music, but I did turn on all 3 of my machines yesterday at the same time, for the first time in a LONG time, sounded wonderful.

[ark_ader]

As I now use CoinOPS Epic for my arcade experience, the front end allows audio files to be played. 

Arcade Ambiance is listed at the end, but I like to play my favorite Movie Soundtracks during the beginning attract sequences.  Like Iron Man.

The xbox is so quiet you cannot hear any fan noise - so it is all good. 

[MagicManPA]

Thanks to this thread, I added music last night. Had 4 songs on repeat in Mala, but it kept locking up on me so I started over with 1 song & so far so good. Pink Floyd - Time for background music. I added some Mortal Kombat sounds for starting games, exiting, etc.

[NJUK]

On my arcade I have plenty of classic game music ripped from many different games and systems. Highlights include the Killer Instinct Killer Groove Soudtrack cd, Jet Set Radio and JSRF soundtracks, Streets of Rage 1-3 plus many single songs from loads of other games, Mario, F-Zero, Street Fighter 2 and Sonic to name a few. I have quite a few different songs on there and it takes quite a while to come across the same song twice. I also have many old skool game adverts as my boot up menu on Maximus Arcade including Sega's Cyber Razor Cut. Classic.