Background Music [Continued from Help/Support]

GTR_BOSS

@Concat Thanks I am going to try and get the other method to work now. Can you please tell me how do I uninstall the first method completely?

Concat

@GTR_BOSS
Sorry, I never installed it, so I can't help.

backstander

@GTR_BOSS
I guess it depends on what you did originally to install it.

I think all you need to is edit /etc/rc.local and remove this line from near the bottom:

(sudo python /home/pi/PyScripts/Test1.py) &

Then, if you want, you can delete /home/pi/PyScripts/Test1.py and then reboot your RPi.
(if you called your .py file something else or put it in a different directory, just substitute as needed!)

Norkali

@synack - I went with the original script and have LXDE installed and can't figure out what I should add to the list of emulators to get the music to stop once I launch desktop from within EM. If I F4 out to terminal and enter 'startx' of course the music has already stopped at that point but I want to be able to have music stop playing when launch form within EM. Any suggestions? Thanks a ton.

TitQuentin

Work perfectly ! Thx !!

Darby

@synack hey man!
I'm stuck on getting this installed, I get the following:

pi@retropie:~ $ sudo apt-get install mpg123
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libltdl7
Suggested packages:
jackd nas oss-compat oss4-base pulseaudio
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libltdl7 mpg123
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 34 not upgraded.
Need to get 152 kB/194 kB of archives.
After this operation, 397 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Err http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ jessie/main mpg123 armhf 1.20.1-2
404 Not Found [IP: 5.153.225.207 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/pool/main/m/mpg123/mpg123_1.20.1-2_armhf.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 5.153.225.207 80]

E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

Anyhelp will be appreciated!

backstander

@Darby
Try sudo apt-get update then try sudo apt-get install mpg123 again

N0va

@homerotl Hey hoping you could help I had the same issue with the files not being there, I got music working in the main menu it just does not stop and play again when existing emulators. Care to share in a little more detail how you got the files to work?

N0va

@synack Hey man I am having some trouble here. I got the music playing at the home screen but when I enter a game the music does not stop. When I first did this I noticed there was no runcommand-onstart.sh and runcommand-onend.sh I had to create them. I think this is the problem any suggestions?? Any help would be appreciated.

(Also side note not as important, any way to decrease volume of music without decrease monitor volume?)

belze

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

@retrobean Not to derail the thread or take away from @Livewire's contribution here, but you can also just use an external mp3 player such as mpg123 to play music without worrying about details.

install mpg123
sudo apt-get install mpg123
edit /opt/retropie/configs/all/autostart.sh and before emulationstation is called;
while pgrep omxplayer >/dev/null; do sleep 1; done
mpg123 -Z /home/pi/bgm/*.mp3 >/dev/null 2>&1 &
edit /opt/retropie/configs/all/runcommand-onstart.sh
pkill -STOP mpg123
edit /opt/retropie/configs/all/runcommand-onend.sh
pkill -CONT mpg123
edit /home/pi/.bashrc and add
[[ $(tty) == "/dev/tty1" ]] && pkill mpg123
This will randomly play mp3s from the specified folder (step 2), pause the player upon entering a game, resume when exiting, and also stop the player when exiting emulationstation and dropping to a bash shell.

I'm following this method but I have an issue on autostart.sh incorrect syntax on line 4. This is how I have set up autostart.sh:

while pgrep omxplayer >/dev/null; do sleep 1; done
mpg123 -Z /home/pi/bgm/*.mp3 >/dev/null 2>&1 &
emulationstation auto#

I don't get it where I wrong, the synack's code is before the emulationstation and there isn't a line 4!

retronerd

Cant get it to work? here is my settings.

backstander

@retronerd
It looks like in your 1st picture of /etc/rc.local you are trying to execute /home/pi/PyScripts/Test1.py but
in the 2nd picture (unless I'm mistaken) is of ???/pi/.config/PyScripts/Test1.py

The 3rd picture I can't tell if it is correct unless I see what's inside your Test1.py

retronerd

ive changed the folder Scripts to PI/Scripts but it doesnt work:(?

i havent changed anything in the script so the music folder shall be in roms right?

backstander

@retronerd

ive changed the folder Scripts to PI/Scripts but it doesnt work:(?

The other thing I would check is if that Script is executable. Run this to make it executable:
chmod +x /home/pi/PyScripts/Test1.py

If it already was executable running this will not harm anything.

i havent changed anything in the script so the music folder shall be in roms right?

Yes @Livewire's script uses /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/music/ for the Music directory

retronerd

Thanks but that doesnt solve my problem????

backstander

@retronerd
Oh, make sure in /etc/rc.local that (sudo python /home/pi/PyScripts/Test1.py) & is all on one single line.

Your 1st picture shows it on 2 lines.

retronerd

ive changed to 1 line but doesnt work

backstander

@retronerd

ive changed to 1 line but doesnt work

Hmmm....just to verify, did you run sudo apt-get install python-pygame

retronerd

@backstander yes what im doing wrong?

look at the S on script is that right? its from 1 page here

retronerd