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    Background Music [Continued from Help/Support]

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      HaroldTemple
      last edited by

      Hi. My English is very bad. Could you make a video tutorial? In this way, we would see how to do it and we would see progress.

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        HaroldTemple
        last edited by

        I followed step by step and it does not work. Version 3.7 Retropie in a Raspberry 3b. .mp3 and .ogg files. A video tutorial clarify everything. Thank you.

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        • cyberneticwiredC
          cyberneticwired
          last edited by

          I tried as well to no avail.

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            Nayin
            last edited by

            Hi! I need help, all works for me if I use in the console :

            sudo python /home/pi/PyScript/Test1.py

            But when I reboot the py, the music dont work.

            This is my /etc/rc.local file

            _IP=$(hostname -I) || true
            if [ "$_IP" ]; then
            printf "My IP address is %s\n" "$_IP"
            fi
            "(sudo python /home/pi/PyScript/Test1.py) &"
            exit 0

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              Nayin @Nayin
              last edited by

              @Nayin Ok the problem are the "", sorry ah ah ah :P

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                Nayin
                last edited by

                Music dont stop when I use the amiga emulator.
                Can you help me?

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                • HoolyHooH
                  HoolyHoo
                  last edited by

                  Just add the Amiga emulator to line 25 in the script.

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                    Nayin @HoolyHoo
                    last edited by

                    @HoolyHoo It is added by default, the same problem with pifba and it this also added :(

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                      Nayin @Nayin
                      last edited by

                      Ok the error is the "2", in uae4all2.
                      Delete the "2" in line 25 and works. Thx

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                        figolu31
                        last edited by figolu31

                        Amazing script, it work like a charm !!!
                        It's possible to configure buttons for activate and desactivate the script ??? or for configure a fast - rewind audio player ???
                        It would be amazing !!!!

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                        • ExarKunIvE
                          ExarKunIv
                          last edited by

                          Just wanted to say i love the BGmusic. works great every time and easy to tweak if need be

                          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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                            manser87
                            last edited by

                            Oh boy... this sounds complicated. I was hoping for something a little more "pre packaged" lol. Setting up my raspberry pi with retropie and all my roms was a fun project but i also had google and some great youtube videos holding my hand in the process. Adding music to my pi would be the finishing touch to something i get excited to share with my friends everytime they come over. Ill try my best to wrap my head around this with my university of google.com education. I still hope for someone to simplify this as much as possible. I think a song selection in the emulationstation menu would be a great addition. Much like there is a theme selection built in.

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                            • ExarKunIvE
                              ExarKunIv @manser87
                              last edited by

                              @manser87

                              for the most part it is,

                              he does a very good job of explaining what you have to do and how.
                              Once you get a better handle on how to edit some of the files. this will be easy for you.

                              it threw me for a loop for a min when the music did not cut for of the Emulators, but then looked and found where i needed to add it

                              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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                              • BriganeB
                                Brigane
                                last edited by Brigane

                                @Livewire Works like a charm, except that it doesn't change to the ingame music when entering a game. The music stops and I have total silence :(

                                Systems: Raspberry Pi 0/2/3 Model B+
                                Os: RetroPie 4.5
                                Frontend: Emulationstation & Attract Mode

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                                • fellegF
                                  felleg
                                  last edited by

                                  One strange thing is happening to me. For very specific songs, they are played at half speed for whatever reason. These songs include all music I tested from the Mario Kart 8 soundtrack, and the Melee 2 theme from Smash Bros for Wii U. I tried opening the song in Audacity and re-exporting them as mp3/ogg, and both attempts changed nothing.

                                  Anyone has an idea what is going on?

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                                    manser87
                                    last edited by

                                    I did it!!! I'm so freaking excited! Thanks for this!

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                                    • _Who_Was_Phone__
                                      _Who_Was_Phone_
                                      last edited by _Who_Was_Phone_

                                      I've added "smw","supertux","cavestory" to my emulatornames= line, but only Cave Story is recognized. I suspect it's because it's a Retroarch core (lr-nxengine), rather than a standalone binary.

                                      Do I have the wrong process names for Super Mario War and Super Tux?

                                      Edit: I had everything right, I just needed to restart the Pi.

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                                      • ExarKunIvE
                                        ExarKunIv @felleg
                                        last edited by

                                        @felleg dont know if this will fix it, but does any of the song have anything in the ID3 tags? if they do they clear them out.

                                        i had a problem with the Doom port seeing my MP3s before i cleared all the tag info.

                                        i dont know if it will help or not, just a thought

                                        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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                                        • fellegF
                                          felleg @ExarKunIv
                                          last edited by

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

                                          @felleg dont know if this will fix it, but does any of the song have anything in the ID3 tags? if they do they clear them out.

                                          i had a problem with the Doom port seeing my MP3s before i cleared all the tag info.

                                          i dont know if it will help or not, just a thought

                                          It's worth a shot, I'll try it out and edit this post with the result when I get home.

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                                          • retrobeanR
                                            retrobean
                                            last edited by

                                            I can confirm that this code works like a charm!

                                            The only thing I would mention, being a new Raspberry Pi user, is that i had no idea how to create the .py file. It turned out that I needed to download python and pygame for PC, copy the text script in, and then save the file, then move it to the pi and make sure it was in the correct folder! ugh!. Good fun though.

                                            Big shout to livewire for making this. I too, though am having the same issue with some MP3's playing at half speed, any fix for this would be great.

                                            All in all, fantastic to have background music on my retropie.

                                            Ra

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