Lazarus-How to put in playlist?? and Where to get MAME Artwork??

[Demon-Seed]

Hey,
I have been having problems getting this to work. How can i get my mp3 play list to play? I am not sure how, i have tried making a mp3 playlist in winamp but its not compatiable..i then took the list and exported it in windows media player and renamed it to start and put in the theme I want it to play that did not work..I tried the default thing to but i did not notice it working..anyone have steps on how to do it? I would appreciate it!

Artwork...I see it supports flyers etc....where can one download all the artwork I would neeD? like all the cabs, flyers etc....?

Thanks
Jim

[D10]

You can find most of the art work here, marquees are not listed though.

http://www.classicgaming.com/mame32qa/down.htm

[Demon-Seed]

Hey
Thanks those links are great! now just need to find out how to do the mp3 thing..and make a custom skin with demons and evil stuff.

[jaquer]

My momma sez that the people on this board are the devil. I think I'm begining to suspect at least one is.

As far as the playlist goes, you're talking about the default.m3u or the background.m3u? The first one plays when the screensaver starts and the second is supposed to be playing all the time. For the first one, Howard has said he plans to scrap that part of the program. For the second one, it still seems to be buggy (it hasn't worked for me). Anyway, either one of the files is supposed to be Winamp-style playlists, meaning they should just have the paths to the music you want to play and lines starting with a # are comments.

Good luck.

[Howard_Casto]

My momma sez that the people on this board are the devil. I think I'm begining to suspect at least one is.

As far as the playlist goes, you're talking about the default.m3u or the background.m3u? The first one plays when the screensaver starts and the second is supposed to be playing all the time. For the first one, Howard has said he plans to scrap that part of the program. For the second one, it still seems to be buggy (it hasn't worked for me). Anyway, either one of the files is supposed to be Winamp-style playlists, meaning they should just have the paths to the music you want to play and lines starting with a # are comments.

Good luck.

what he said

[Howard_Casto]

Oh a couple more things....
I checked the playlist for the backgrounds and realized that the answer is none of the above....
Win mp format is totally f*cked up and it turns out that the recent versions of winamp don't put the drive letter in the path.  Your best solution is to put in the drive letter manually from a winamp created playlist.  

As for artwork... crash test does a great job of adding keeping snapshots for everything.... that's where i get mine because they don't have those annoying white borders...   mameworld.net has links to all the other files....

As for non mame emus... I'm constantly compiling artwork (snaps/flyers/cab shots/marquees/ect) and adding them to my personal build.  Once I get a complete set for a emu I release them.  If you go to the old raging dragon homepage you'll find artwork for most of the non-mame emus.... I will be releasing a daphne and zinc artwork pack soon.  

If you have any logos or artwork that would be of any use please contact me about it.   We will try to host as much as possible until it hurts the bandwidth or we can find these packs an official home.  If you noticed I released my logos the other day.... the preview shots don't do them justice but I still need more.  

[Demon-Seed]

Hey,
Ok...in regards to mp3. I still am a little confused. In the Laz dir there is only default.m3u..no background.m3u? where is that stored and you mentioned commenting something out where you type a list..where is that? I checked the Laz.ini file and dir.ini file and I do not see anything pertaining to music or sounds? Please explain as I am a little slow in the head..hehe...  

[Howard_Casto]

background.m3u is new to the betas... you can place one in each of your skin folders and have a list of music to play for each skin... you can also have a default .m3u that's used for the screensaver, which will be scrapped soon anyway...

izaram explained all of that to you in his post

[Demon-Seed]

Hi,
Ok I took 1 song 1 and made a m3u playlist and named it background.m3u..placed it in the theme dir I want to use but it doesnt play ...  I checked the file background.m3u in notebad and it has the following...

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:218, Creed - Unforgiven
\Lazarus\Mp3\1.mp3

Now I changed the last line to C:\Lazarus\Mp3\1.mp3

Tried it it still does not play..any ideas?

If you take a MP3 song and name it start it will play. (just a note)

Thanks
Jim

[SirPoonga]

The file name is 1.mp3???  that's weird.

[Howard_Casto]

Hi,
Ok I took 1 song 1 and made a m3u playlist and named it background.m3u..placed it in the theme dir I want to use but it doesnt play ...  I checked the file background.m3u in notebad and it has the following...

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:218, Creed - Unforgiven
\Lazarus\Mp3\1.mp3

Now I changed the last line to C:\Lazarus\Mp3\1.mp3

Tried it it still does not play..any ideas?

If you take a MP3 song and name it start it will play. (just a note)

Thanks
Jim

Demon, these are betas, in other words no tech support.  You have everything set right just wait until the final release.  There are going to be issues on some setups until I perfect some things. Adding background music support to the code isn't as easy as it would seem in this case, and contrary to popular belief this new feature isn't related to playing the other sounds (eg sound events and the screensaver)  in any way so it's totally new code.  

[Demon-Seed]

Hi,
Ok Howard thanks for the info, it is appreciated!!

Thanks
Jim