MineVinyl

Guide · Installation

How to install a resource pack

Resource packs are installed the same way whether you made them with MineVinyl or downloaded them elsewhere. This guide covers Java Edition on all platforms and includes notes for Bedrock.

Java Edition — Windows

  1. Press Win + R, type %AppData%\.minecraft\resourcepacks and press Enter. This opens the resource packs folder.
  2. Move your .zip file into this folder. Do not unzip it — Minecraft reads the zip directly.
  3. Open Minecraft Java Edition.
  4. Go to Options → Resource Packs. Your pack appears in the Available list on the left.
  5. Hover over it and click the arrow (→) to move it to the Selected list on the right.
  6. Click Done. Minecraft reloads resources.
  7. Place a music disc in a jukebox to hear your custom track. Make sure you're using the same disc slot you assigned in MineVinyl.

Java Edition — macOS

  1. Open Finder and press Cmd+Shift+G.
  2. Enter ~/Library/Application Support/minecraft/resourcepacks and press Go.
  3. Copy your .zip into this folder (do not unzip).
  4. In Minecraft, go to Options → Resource Packs, enable the pack, and click Done.

Java Edition — Linux

  1. Navigate to ~/.minecraft/resourcepacks in your file manager or terminal.
  2. Copy or move the .zip file into this folder (do not unzip).
  3. Enable the pack via Options → Resource Packs in-game.

Enabling the pack in-game via the open folder button

In Minecraft's Resource Packs screen, there is an Open Pack Folder button in the bottom-left corner. Clicking it opens the resourcepacks folder in your system file manager directly, which is often faster than navigating there manually. You can copy the zip here while the screen is open — click Done and reopen Resource Packs, and your new pack will appear.

Bedrock Edition

MineVinyl currently generates Java Edition resource packs. Bedrock uses a different file structure (.mcpack and a separate manifest format), so the generated zip will not import correctly on Bedrock.

Bedrock support is something we're considering for a future update. In the meantime, if you need custom music on Bedrock, you'll need to manually create a Bedrock-format sound pack referencing the OGG file you converted with MineVinyl.

Pack order and priority

If you have multiple resource packs active, the pack highest in the Selected list takes priority. If another active pack also replaces music disc sounds, it may override your MineVinyl pack. Move your pack to the top of the list to give it highest priority.