Theme Sound FX not working

[giantalbi]

Hi, i was trying to add the old menu sound into the 'simple' theme. So in the simple.xml file, I put the sound tag in the root of the <theme> tag like this

<theme>
        <menuScrollSound>~/.emulationstation/themes/sounds/GS25.wav</menuScrollSound>
        <menuSelectSound>~/.emulationstation/themes/sounds/GS42.wav</menuSelectSound>
        <menuBackSound>~/.emulationstation/themes/sounds/GS28.wav</menuBackSound>
        <menuOpenSound>~/.emulationstation/themes/sounds/SNES5.wav</menuOpenSound>

    <formatVersion>3</formatVersion>

    <view name="system">

        <image name="background" extra="true">
            <size>0 1</size>
            <pos>0.5 0.5</pos>
            <origin>0.5 0.5</origin>
        </image>
    </view>

    <view name="basic, detailed">

        <text name="md_lbl_rating, md_lbl_releasedate, md_lbl_developer, md_lbl_publisher, md_lbl_genre, md_lbl_players, md_lbl_lastplayed, md_lbl_playcount">
            <color>393a3b</color>
            <forceUppercase>1</forceUppercase>
            <fontPath>./art/OPENSANS-LIGHT.TTF</fontPath>
            <fontSize>0.03</fontSize>
            <size>0.12 0.04</size>
        </text>

        <text name="md_rating, md_developer, md_publisher, md_genre, md_players, md_playcount">
            <color>393a3b</color>
            <forceUppercase>1</forceUppercase>
            <fontPath>./art/OPENSANS-LIGHT.TTF</fontPath>
            <fontSize>0.03</fontSize>
            <size>0.14 0.04</size>
        </text>

        <text name="md_description">
            <color>393a3b</color>
            <forceUppercase>1</forceUppercase>
            <fontPath>./art/OPENSANS-LIGHT.TTF</fontPath>
            <fontSize>0.03</fontSize>
        </text>

        <datetime name="md_releasedate, md_lastplayed">
            <color>393a3b</color>
            <forceUppercase>1</forceUppercase>
            <fontPath>./art/OPENSANS-LIGHT.TTF</fontPath>
            <fontSize>0.03</fontSize>
            <size>0 0.04</size>
        </datetime>

        <image name="header" extra="true">
            <pos>0 0</pos>
            <origin>0 0</origin>
            <size>1 0.16</size>
            <path>./art/bright.png</path>
        </image>

        <image name="footer" extra="true">
            <pos>0 1</pos>
            <origin>0 1</origin>
            <size>1 0.065</size>
            <path>./art/bright.png</path>
        </image> 

        <image name="background">
            <pos>0 0</pos>
            <origin>0 0</origin>
            <size>1 1</size>
            <path>./art/mid.png</path>
        </image> 

        <textlist name="gamelist">
            <selectorColor>393a3b</selectorColor>
            <selectedColor>97999b</selectedColor>
            <primaryColor>393a3b</primaryColor>
            <secondaryColor>000000</secondaryColor>
            <fontPath>./art/OPENSANS.TTF</fontPath>
            <fontSize>0.03</fontSize>
            <forceUppercase>1</forceUppercase>
        </textlist>

    </view>

    <view name="basic">
    </view>

    <view name="detailed">
    </view>

</theme>

When i select the theme set in EmulationStation (on my raspberry pi), no sounds are playing (i put them in the right directory).

[nilsbyte]

Can you post details regarding that WAV files? If you don't know how, just upload the WAVs somewhere and let me check.

[giantalbi]

I took them on an old retroPie theme https://www.dropbox.com/home/Public/RetroPie/sounds

[nilsbyte]

You are using it wrong, the theming system has changed since version 2.0. The sound tag is now a property of the textlist element. Look here: https://github.com/Aloshi/EmulationStation/blob/unstable/THEMES.md

You have to add <scrollSound>~/.emulationstation/themes/sounds/GS25.wav</scrollSound> inside the <textlist> element.

I just tried it by myself. It works but only after the third key press when scrolling through the game list.

The other tags from your XML <menuBackSound> <menuOpenSound> <menuSelectSound> don't exist any longer. I think it would be good to be able define sounds for the carousel (system select) and the menu, as well as a select and a execute-sound for each of them @Aloshi.

If it doesn't work, it's possible that you have the same issue as described here: https://github.com/Aloshi/EmulationStation/issues/130

Try to launch a game and quit it. Are the sounds playing now? Also try to change the values in config.txt as described in https://github.com/Aloshi/EmulationStation/issues/130 - be sure to choose the right number matching to your screens resolution. Documentation here: http://elinux.org/RPiconfig#Video_mode_options