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    (BG music script) Sound cuts in and out after some minutes of gameplay.

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      illando
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      Solved!
      I forgot to mention that I installed a script for background music:
      https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/347/background-music-continued-from-help-support
      Sorry but I thought was just related to emulation station. apparently the script continues to run as background process also after a game launch.

      After uninstalling python-pygame, everything works fine, but I would really like to add some background music to my ES theme.

      Searching on the forum I can see there are some scripts for background music.
      https://github.com/Naprosnia/RetroPie_BGM_Player
      https://github.com/Rydra/bgm-for-es

      Would you suggest me what's the most updated (retropie 4.8 compatible) and suitable for my configuration? I have really basic request: just play 1 mp3 file in emulation station.
      Thanks a lot.

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        ExarKunIv @illando
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        @illando the bottom of my first post as a bunch of different BGM
        https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/31580/suggestions-for-ports-2

        all you have to do is try them and find out what ones work for you

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          illando @ExarKunIv
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          @ExarKunIv Thanks a lot for the list.
          Hope one of this script will be integrated in a future official release very soon.

          Anybody has any recommendations?

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            ExarKunIv @illando
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            @illando personally i have liked RetroPie BGM player
            its Naprosnia main script, i just fixed a error that was coming up, and he is not supporting it anymore

            there is current support for Integrated music player for Retropie -IMP that is getting alot of updates and fixes

            and the newest one BGM123 by s1eve-mcdichae1, that is bundled into RetroPie-Extras.

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              illando @ExarKunIv
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              @ExarKunIv thanks again!

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                illando @ExarKunIv
                last edited by illando

                @ExarKunIv I tried several of the scripts from your list, and only a few of them didn’t suffer of the problem I mentioned before.
                I quickly realized the difference between them is the path of the music folder. If it’s not a shared folder the script will
                run perfectly!
                For example, my favorite is BGM123 bundled into RetroPie-Extras and using the default settings, sound will become discontinued after few minutes of gaming (I found Dr. Mario on lr-Feceumm being a perfect test).
                Changing the music folder path to a non-shared folder (you can still have access via SFTP/SSH) makes the script working again.

                I hope this feedback will be helpful for the future development of the scripts.

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                  illando
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                  Nope, it seems I was wrong. :-(

                  Yes, placing the audio folder in a non shared folder helps to reduce the raspberry workload, but after a while the sound cuts starts.
                  I tried all the scripts in your list @ExarKunIv and they all fail!!
                  I also tried various mp3 or OGG files with the same result. The one I would like to play is a very small 956kb file, 44100hz 256kb/s.
                  Maybe it's because my hardware configuration is not enough to play background music?
                  Is a Raspberry pi3b+ or 4 the minimum requirement for this kind of scripts?

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                    ExarKunIv @illando
                    last edited by

                    @illando not sure where the problem is.

                    I have a script running on my pi3+ running without a issue and I have had one on my pi4 running without issues also. Just not right now since I'm doing other script testing at the moment.

                    I'm using this one on my pi3+ (but this has a old OS on it)
                    https://github.com/Exarkuniv/RetroPie_BGM_Player

                    And I think I used that script on my pi4 also. But that I can remember

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                      illando @ExarKunIv
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                      @ExarKunIv Maybe it's the combination of RetroPie Version 4.8 + PI 3 Model B instead of B+?
                      I run retropie from a 32GB micro-sd card UHS 1. Should I upgrade to a UHS 3 (U3)?
                      Maybe the problem is the reading speed of the SD.

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                        ExarKunIv @illando
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                        @illando unfortunately I don't know
                        I really don't see the card speed being much of an issue because the raspberry pi doesn't have a very fast read write speed to start with as far as I know

                        But if you have one laying around or easily accessible guess it wouldn't hurt to try that

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