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    • Z
      zerojay
      last edited by

      Is there a particular reason you guys aren't using the runcommand-onstart and onend scripts to kill and restart the music without needing to add emulator names anywhere?

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      • BobHarrisB
        BobHarris @ByteThis
        last edited by BobHarris

        @bytethis No sorry. I figured out the names of some emulators by starting an emulator, opening winscp on my pc, connecting to the pi, opening a terminal in winscp and typing: ps -A . This shows you the names of all the running programs. You could find out what name is used for the Pixel Desktop and add it to the emulator list (treating it as an emulator). But I have no idea if that even works. I can't think of any other solution, except trying a different route , like the method Zerojay is talking about.

        @zerojay There are some extra functionalities: Set a startsong, start a new song after exiting a game, music fade out when starting a game. When you add the missing emulators, it works just as well.

        Pi 3B , 64 GB Sandisk ultra flashdrive, 19 systems, 872 hand picked classic gaming gems :-) Dual shock 4v2

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        • ByteThisB
          ByteThis @BobHarris
          last edited by

          @bobharris Ok..thanks ! I will play around with it and see what I can come up with.

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          • ExarKunIvE
            ExarKunIv @zerojay
            last edited by

            @zerojay

            i believe the other way that is posted here uses the runcommand to kill it, but it is way to sudden. some people like that way.
            personally i like this way, yes it can be a pain to get the emulator to stop the music, but for me that is half the fun :)

            RPi3B+ / 200GB/ RetroPie v4.5.14, RPi4 Model B 4gb / 256gb / RetroPie 4.8.2
            RPi5 4gb / 512gb / RetroPie 4.8.9 -Basic
            Maintainer of RetroPie-Extra .

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            • LexxL
              Lexx
              last edited by

              Hey. I'm using the script from OP for a while now. Is there a way to mute and resume or start/stop it?
              I can't figure out how :(

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              • RanmaR
                Ranma
                last edited by

                Just wanted to add thanks for this method of adding music to the Pi. It works beautifully and has been glitch free for me so far. :-) Very easy to setup. Brilliant!

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                • madmodder123M
                  madmodder123
                  last edited by

                  I updated this script to add overlays of song titles when browsing ES
                  https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/16458/modfied-background-music-script-with-added-overlays
                  alt text

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                    m0riarty @jman
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                    • darkniorD
                      darknior
                      last edited by

                      I have try the script, and the other solutions and that never pause the music when OMXPlayer read a video.
                      Is there a solution ? i don't understand how to do it.
                      The music is only PAUSE when i launch an emulator.
                      Thanks

                      Life is game, just play it !

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                      • madmodder123M
                        madmodder123 @darknior
                        last edited by

                        @darknior emulatornames = ["retroarch","ags","uae4all2","uae4arm","capricerpi","linapple","hatari","stella","atari800","xroar","vice","daphne","reicast","pifba","osmose","gpsp","jzintv","basiliskll","mame","advmame","dgen","openmsx","mupen64plus","gngeo","dosbox","ppsspp","simcoupe","scummvm","snes9x","pisnes","frotz","fbzx","fuse","gemrb","cgenesis","zdoom","eduke32","lincity","love","kodi","alephone","micropolis","openbor","openttd","opentyrian","cannonball","tyrquake","ioquake3","residualvm","xrick","sdlpop","uqm","stratagus","wolf4sdl","solarus","drastic","coolcv","PPSSPPSDL","moonlight","Xorg","smw","omxplayer.bin"]

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                        • darkniorD
                          darknior @madmodder123
                          last edited by darknior

                          @madmodder123 It works thanks a lot.
                          I don't have think the OMX must be in list too :p

                          I'm not using /etc/rc.local to launch it at start, autostart.sh is better i think :)

                          python /home/pi/retropie_bgm.py 2>&1 1>/dev/null &
                          emulationstation
                          

                          @livewire said in Background Music [Continued from Help/Support]:

                          Delayed Start. Change startdelay to a value (in seconds) if you need the script to delay itself for some reason. At first this would have been for something like a video splash screen, but:

                          It's a delay to launch music at start.

                          But is it possible to add a delay to resume music every time the music is paused ?
                          because I can hear it between 2 videos, and many small stealthy moments like that where it should not.

                          I have try :

                                      #Turn up the music
                                      print "Emulator finished, resuming audio..."
                                      if not restart:
                                          time.sleep(5);
                                          mixer.music.unpause() #resume
                          

                          I think it's here but i'm not sure how to do it?
                          It work for the ES menu, the music come back after 5 sec, but some times i can always listen it between 2 videos and it don't take me more than 2 3 seconds to change game.
                          Thanks

                          Life is game, just play it !

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                          • darkniorD
                            darknior @darknior
                            last edited by

                            @darknior said in Background Music [Continued from Help/Support]:

                            I'm not using /etc/rc.local to launch it at start, autostart.sh is better :)

                            So stupid it's my bug, the & after emulationstation :(
                            But rc.local not working for me.
                            If some one can help for this too ?

                            Life is game, just play it !

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                              WayTooHip @Concat
                              last edited by

                              @concat I love your script, its what i used in my Pi, i just have a problem, when i enter into the in system terminal/command-line by pushing F4 on my keyboard the music stops as it is supposed but when i type "emulationstation" to get back to ES the music doesn't play anymore it completlely stops, everything else has sound just no background music, can you help me please? thanks in advance, i'm a noob just starting in this sort of things.

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                                djsys
                                last edited by djsys

                                Thanks!If u need cool sound effects , try this https://www.lucidsamples.com/free-sample-packs/181-free-sound-effects-sfx-pack.html

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                                  mubonassi @synack
                                  last edited by

                                  @synack said in Background Music [Continued from Help/Support]:

                                  /opt/retropie/configs/all/autostart.sh

                                  Hello! Can I make the script start after EmulationStation is called? Because, making the script start after the EmulationStation is called is making my SplashScreen not surpass the EmulationStation screen anymore, I noticed that by deleting the line "while pgrep omxplayer >/dev/null; do sleep 1; done
                                  mpg123 -Z /home/pi/bgm/*.mp3 >/dev/null 2>&1 &" on the autostart.sh

                                  Can the script start after is called?

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                                    wcarvalho
                                    last edited by

                                    I'm doing some tests, I checked if I run the script more than once it plays the duplicate audio file, how do I fix it?

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                                    • matchamanM
                                      matchaman
                                      last edited by matchaman

                                      I'm trying to figure out how to make audio stop immediately once splashscreens for games (runcommand) appear instead of stopping when the emulator loads. Adding runcommand to emulatornames didn't help :/

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                                        DarishZone Banned
                                        last edited by DarishZone

                                        Hi, i have this script on my setting, came with Eazy Hax Tools, which can be upgraded, so i guess the script also be updated (?). I've only installed ogg files. I'm not obsessed on patterns, everything works fine, but seems to me player have some preference (?). I have over 150 tracks on sd card, but seems to play mostly the same tracks, guess the script play all tracks (not sure, but seems odd to think otherwise), but others on very minor percentage. It is my impression? There's a way to improve shuffle?

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                                          TigerMask
                                          last edited by

                                          A great addition to my RetroPie. The only problem I've found is that the music won't stop for Wolfenstein 3D. I'm using Wolf4SDL, I can play the game but the script continues. I've looked at line 25 and "wolf4sdl" is already there. Has anyone else had the same problem or can suggest a fix?

                                          Thank you!

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                                            TigerMask @TigerMask
                                            last edited by TigerMask

                                            @tigermask

                                            If anyone else if having the same problem, check this out:
                                            https://github.com/retr0rangepi/RetrOrangePi/blob/master/Background_Music/bgmusic.py

                                            I just copied the emulator list on line 25 across to my current code:
                                            "wolf4sdl-3dr-v14", "wolf4sdl-gt-v14", "wolf4sdl-spear", "wolf4sdl-sw-v14", "xvic","xvic cart","xplus4","xpet","x128","x64sc","x64","PPSSPPSDL","prince","OpenBOR","Xorg","retroarch","ags","uae4all2","uae4arm","capricerpi","linapple","hatari","stella","atari800","xroar","vice","daphne.bin","reicast","pifba","osmose","gpsp","jzintv","basiliskll","mame","advmame","dgen","openmsx","mupen64plus","gngeo","dosbox","ppsspp","simcoupe","scummvm","snes9x","pisnes","frotz","fbzx","fuse","gemrb","cgenesis","zdoom","eduke32","lincity","love","kodi","alephone","micropolis","openbor","openttd","opentyrian","cannonball","tyrquake","ioquake3","residualvm","xrick","sdlpop","uqm","stratagus","wolf4sdl","solarus_run","mplayer"

                                            Gonna play me some Wolfenstein 3D!

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