Background Music [Continued from Help/Support]

backstander

Instead you hear your mp3 while game on.

You could follow steps 1 and 2 of @synack alternative background music script (leave out steps 3, 4 and 5):
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/347/background-music-continued-from-help-support/43

This will make it continually play random MP3s from the /home/pi/bgm/ directory...even when you're playing games.

Recap of the directions (steps 1 and 2):

Install mpg123

sudo apt-get install mpg123

Edit /opt/retropie/configs/all/autostart.sh and add this before EmulationStation is called;

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

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

Kristopherson05

Hey I was wondering if there's a way to skip a song or turn off the music (at a push of a button). It's not too important but would be great if I could. BTW, for some reason it doesn't play the full repertoire of songs and the script picks favorites, can I fix this somehow? Thanks

retronerd

I have noticed that in FBA for example the in game music stops for a second and after that resumes in random games... Ive tried to unistall theBGM but its still there? anyone

Linkseo

Hello and Thank you for the script its great.
Just a little help though. It still plays while launching daphne and Nintendo DS emulator. I checked the script and saw that daphne was on there with the others and I added Nintendo DS but music still plays over those 2.
Sorry in advance if this issue has been resolved in this thread and I missed it. I skimmed through the entire thing but didn't see it.
Thanks

jman

I'm having a problem with Daphne for some reason it's not seeing the emulator and the music continues to play. I checked the script and Daphne is on the list all of the other emulators work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

anasazi29

great work man! works perfectly. I really like it that it mutes or pauses the mp3 once I start playing a game.

huettmaster

hello,

i have the same problem that the music is still playing when i start the C64 vice emulator. in line 25 of the script it is listed. how can i solve the problem?

Brigane

@huettmaster Are you using any external devices such as a usb sound card?

huettmaster

no. all roms and the music are located on the sd-scard...

jman

I am loading my roms off a usb stick so far pifba and daphne do not work the music just plays right through.

ExarKunIv

@jman

it just might not work. i have come across the port of prince of persia the music plays right thought also.

you might want to look in to using what @synack posted for a different way. Im going to be giving it a try my self. I still like @Livewire version more, but for what ever reason when i have DraStic in the list. my controller stop working.

sucks but what can you do.

johnboyw

I have followed everything and triple checked it. I still have no sound though. I have the pi 3 if that makes any difference?
Can anyone throw any pointers my way?

samuel95_54

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

Should work after the update.

johnboyw

@samuel95_54 said in Background Music [Continued from Help/Support]:

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

Should work after the update.

I have tried op way and also the mpg123 way. Neither give me sound. I know everything sound related is working as I can hear noises when I navigate around the emulator menus.

ExarKunIv

@johnboyw

we need a little more info to help. do you have the commands in /rc.local correct if you are useing the op way

and for mpg123 do you have all the commands for runcommand-onstart.sh and runcommand-onend.sh correct

also where is your music folder?

backstander

@johnboyw
If you're using HDMI cable sound, try forcing HDMI audio out by adding hdmi_drive=2 to your /boot/config.txt then restart your RPi.

Here's some more sound troubleshooting:
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Sound-Issues

johnboyw

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

@johnboyw

we need a little more info to help. do you have the commands in /rc.local correct if you are useing the op way

and for mpg123 do you have all the commands for runcommand-onstart.sh and runcommand-onend.sh correct

also where is your musIc folder

johnboyw

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

@johnboyw
If you're using HDMI cable sound, try forcing HDMI audio out by adding hdmi_drive=2 to your /boot/config.txt then restart your RPi.

Here's some more sound troubleshooting:
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Sound-Issues

I have sound just no music playing.

ExarKunIv

@johnboyw

did you edit the music.py at all?

backstander

@johnboyw
Unless you have already edited your music.py script, you should move just your Music files to /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/music

Or if you don't want to move your Music files, you could just edit your /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/music/Script/music.py script to point to the actual music directory you are using like this:

musicdir = '/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/music/Script'