Background Music [Continued from Help/Support]

ZingZonZot

@synack, Alright, awesome I'll try it out thanks for the help man! I'm trying to get this done before Christmas making my brother a retropie box, and at the same time getting calls from clients to been busy lol.

Btw I start a game the music stops but in game audio is cut off.. 🤔

smellslikekimchi

I'm new to the community so I'd first like to say thank you all for sharing your knowledge with us newbies. It definitely helps us a ton and I personally really appreciate it. Introductions aside, I just had a simple question before I go ahead with this process, will the music stop when ES goes to standby/sleep mode? I will have my Retropie on at all times. I read the entire thread and didn't see anything about standby. Thank you!

ZingZonZot

@smellslikekimchi I can confirm that, I just quit EMU station and the music stops as soon as it goes back to the CLI, but upon restarting EMU station it still plays.

smellslikekimchi

@ZingZonZot thank you for the instant reply! So to be clear, it stopped when you shut down ES? I was actually referring to when you just let it sit for a while and it goes to sleep.

synack

@smellslikekimchi the short answer is no, it will keep playing and since that dimming/sleep mode is not externally indicated.

ZingZonZot

@smellslikekimchi yes, it stopped when shutdown emulation station but like @synack said it doesn't when it's in sleep mode.

smellslikekimchi

@synack @ZingZonZot aha, thank yall for this. I will hold off until I can figure out a way to have it stop on sleep. I'm new to this so it may take me a while. I'm curious, at cursory glance at Livewire's code do you think it would pause music during sleep?

synack

@smellslikekimchi sorry, but no -- it would not stop.

smellslikekimchi

@synack roger that. Thank you for your help

ZingZonZot

nevermind I solved my own game sound issue, @synack Thank you for your help I really appreciate it, man!

karmakode

@synack good stuff man i was able to get this to work but i noticed whenever i try to go to retropie setup in the menu the screen goes black and i cant see anything but can hear the music still.....Did i do something wrong?

karmakode

@synack nevermind i was ssh into the pi at the same time. thats why i was getting a blank screen. it would be awesome if there was a way to get different music when your in each system like recallbox

raspy+

@synack

thank you very much for this wonderful method!

if I was to type "emulationstation" at the command-line can I get the player to start again or do I have to reboot to autostart the process?

Thanks,

synack

@raspy+ You can either reboot or execute the autostart.sh script which will invoke the mp3 player as well as emulationstation.

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

raspy+

@synack

thanks for your quick response! ... I did a little poking around on the internet and even read up on how to make a basic shell script since I am such a noob. I just end up modifying the existing (/usr/bin/emulationstation) script by adding your script before "clear" and after "reset" like so and I can launch "emulationstation" with the same results from command-line:

#!/bin/bash

if [[ $(id -u) -eq 0 ]]; then
echo "emulationstation should not be run as root. If you used 'sudo emulationstation' please run without sudo."
exit 1
fi

if [[ "$(uname --machine)" != 86 ]]; then
if [[ -n "$(pidof X)" ]]; then
echo "X is running. Please shut down X in order to mitigate problems with losing keyboard input. For example, logout from LXDE."
exit 1
fi
fi

while pgrep omxplayer >/dev/null; do sleep 1; done
mpg123 -Z /media/usb0/music/*.mp3 2>/media/usb0/music/playlist &

clear
tput civis
"/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/emulationstation.sh" "$@"
reset

pkill mpg123

EDIT: I forgot to mention that even though I can execute the "autostart.sh" script to achieve the same thing however I have Kodi booting first and I wanted to just launch emulationstation when I am at the command-line.

Thanks,

MoMan_

Audio continues playing when running ">ports_" games (Super Mario War, at least).

What would I add to the script to kill audio when playing ported games?

smellslikekimchi

@raspy+ Thank you for this update. This in conjunction with @synack 's tutorial gave me exactly what I wanted except for one small question:

When I exit a game the menu music comes back on immediately when I exit to the game select screen. How do I add a bit of delay or "sleep" until the music starts back up again?

Thanks!

synack

@smellslikekimchi

to force a delay, edit /opt/retropie/configs/all/runcommand-onend.sh and instead of

pkill -CONT mpg123

use

(sleep 2; pkill -CONT mpg123) &

Of course, adjust the sleep # to your heart's desire.

smellslikekimchi

@synack you are a king among peasants. This worked like a charm. Thank you again for your help.

CraveClone

@Livewire
Just wanted to say thanks for the script, just what i was looking for and it worked perfectly!