# How to add *Custom Songs* to *Vib-Ribbon* (emulator)

Hello! This is like the definitive tutorial of how to make an ISO+CUE file playable with vib-ribbon. BUT this can be useful if you want to simply make an ISO+CUE.

I am writing this tutorial from Linux, but I think all the steps are the same for other operating systems including BSD, Windows, MacOS, and maybe android

First, I will show you the list of steps to follow:

* Have the required programs
* Export with audacity the audio
* Make the CUE file
* How to use it

## Have the required programs

You need this pieces:

* An audio we want to play
* Audacity
* A plain text editor
* An emulator compatible with audio disks
* The vib-ribbon rom

### Audacity

First, run audacity and Click on _FILE_ and then click on _OPEN_.

Select your song. **In my case it's Future Eve by Sasakure.UK**

then, click the "Frequency (HZ)" and then select 44100.

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Next, click on FILE, EXPORT, EXPORT AUDIO or just press Shift+Ctrl+E.

Select "Other file formats without compression" and then select the header "RAW (header-less)", and "Signed 16-bit"

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Then export it to a folder you want. In my case, just for the tutorial, is `~/Descargas/Future Eve/`

### The BIN+CUE part

When it is exported, Rename the file format to .BIN. **in my case, the file is `FUTURE EVE.raw` and I will rename it to `FUTURE EVE.bin`** And make a CUE file with this content:

```
FILE "Name.bin" BINARY
  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    INDEX 00 00:00:00
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
```

and replace `Name` with the file name. **In my case is `FUTURE EVE.bin`

I recomment to have the same name with different format, like

```
"FUTURE EVE.bin"
"FUTURE EVE.cue"
```

but you can put them different names.

### Game part

Yay! you have a working BIN+CUE disk with your music! now we want to play it in vib-ribbon

You must have an emulator compatible with audio disks. I don't know how to determinate this, but I tried PCSXR and it doesn't work. The best solution is Duckstation, that have a lot of features and It is super fast and Open source (GNU GPLv3). It is available on [flathub](https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.duckstation.DuckStation) and here is his [github](https://github.com/stenzek/duckstation)

Then launch duckstation, configure it, and then open the Vib-Ribbon ROM.

go to the CD section

go to the single track and then change the disk

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Now you can play your song!!!

## Bye bye!

I hope I helped you with this tutorial.

Feel free to [contact me](t.me/debgerme) if you have a question or something to say. you can sumbit a commit here if you wish.