Background Music [Continued from Help/Support]

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'

johnboyw

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

@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 music.py script to point to the actual music directory you are using like this:
musicdir = '/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/music/Script'

I've already tried it in that folder. That didn't work either.

johnboyw

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

@johnboyw

did you edit the music.py at all?

All I did was follow the instructions at the top by the op. That didn't work so I then tried the second one. That didn't work so I then saw another version in a different forum that I tried. Hence the reason why my music is in that script folder now.

ExarKunIv

@johnboyw

im sure that it will not do anything but put a enter after the &

(sudo python /home/pi/BGmusic.py) &

exit 0

this is from my rc.local so thats why its different

johnboyw

Thanks for all the help. I'm very new to all this. I've only just bought my pi. I usually just mess with phone ROMs. I've no idea when it comes to coding etc. But I'm prepared to learn.
I'll try the things mentioned when I get home.
Thank you.

ExarKunIv

@johnboyw

not a problem. im still kinda new myself.
just keep asking and we'll keep trying to help

johnboyw

I'm also trying to get videos to show in the emulators. But that's another story 😂

ExarKunIv

@johnboyw

that i have not tried yet. so good luck :P

**Scannigan**

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

@madmodder123
You might try just putting mpg123 -q <dial-up-modem>.mp3 & at the very bottom of /etc/rc.local just above the last line exit 0. This should only play that dial up modem sound when you boot your RPi. Then you could still play other random MP3s by using /home/pi/.bashrc.

If that isn't soon enough, you might experiment with putting that mpg123 line up higher in /etc/rc.local but make sure to make a back up of that file just in case!

I have an even better solution for you. Problem with rc.local is that it's one of the last things to be called in the boot process, so the best thing would be to create a system service in systemd.

Apologies I haven't yet worked out that pretty code embed system :) so this is probably not appropriate forum etiquette

It's very likely that you have sound set up just fine, so I'm going to skip a few steps, in command line

#at command type

sudo modprobe snd-bcm2835

#Create a new file

Sudo nano /etc/modules-load.d/snd-bcm2835.conf

#and in this put just:
snd-bcm2835

#Ctrl + O, enter Y and Ctrl-X to save

#At command type
sudo alsactl store

#Find whatever sound you want to use, ideally a .wav name it boot-sound.wav and put it in /boot (you'll obviously need to do #this as sudo, so if using WinSCP just change the shell settings under advanced options before you connect.

#Now create a service file

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/bootsound.service

#Contents of the above should be:

[Unit]
Description=Boot Sound
Wants=sound.target
After=sound.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
RemainAfterExit=no
ExecStart=/usr/bin/aplay /boot/boot-sound.wav 2>&1 >/dev/null &

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

#Ctrl + O, enter Y and Ctrl-X to save

#In command line type:

sudo chmod +x /etc/systemd/system/bootsound.service

#then
systemctl enable bootsound

sudo reboot

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johnboyw

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

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

@madmodder123
You might try just putting mpg123 -q <dial-up-modem>.mp3 & at the very bottom of /etc/rc.local just above the last line exit 0. This should only play that dial up modem sound when you boot your RPi. Then you could still play other random MP3s by using /home/pi/.bashrc.

If that isn't soon enough, you might experiment with putting that mpg123 line up higher in /etc/rc.local but make sure to make a back up of that file just in case!

I have an even better solution for you. Problem with rc.local is that it's one of the last things to be called in the boot process, so the best thing would be to create a system service in systemd.

Apologies I haven't yet worked out that pretty code embed system :) so this is probably not appropriate forum etiquette

It's very likely that you have sound set up just fine, so I'm going to skip a few steps, in command line

#at command type

sudo modprobe snd-bcm2835

#Create a new file

Sudo nano /etc/modules-load.d/snd-bcm2835.conf

#and in this put just:
snd-bcm2835

#Ctrl + O, enter Y and Ctrl-X to save

#At command type
sudo alsactl store

#Find whatever sound you want to use, ideally a .wav name it boot-sound.wav and put it in /boot (you'll obviously need to do #this as sudo, so if using WinSCP just change the shell settings under advanced options before you connect.

#Now create a service file

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/bootsound.service

#Contents of the above should be:

[Unit]
Description=Boot Sound
Wants=sound.target
After=sound.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
RemainAfterExit=no
ExecStart=/usr/bin/aplay /boot/boot-sound.wav 2>&1 >/dev/null &

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

#Ctrl + O, enter Y and Ctrl-X to save

#In command line type:

sudo chmod +x /etc/systemd/system/bootsound.service

#then
systemctl enable bootsound

sudo reboot

Wow. How the hell do people know this s**t.
I'm definitely a beginner at this. Half of that I don't understand! Christ I've a lot to learn.
I will try it tonight. Thank you so much for taking time to help me.

gazzhally

I can't seem to get the music to stop whenever I run vice. I've checked the code and its listed in there. Any ideas?

ExarKunIv

@gazzhally

which music player are you using. the one written by @Livewire or @synack .

knowing this will help, get the help you need

gazzhally

@ExarKunIv Sorry, should have mentioned that bit lol

Am using @Livewire 's player

eliex

I am using Livewire script. Thanks to all for all the hard work.
I had a image (Nacho's 64GB) on my SD card.
My Raspberry is 3 model b. The issue I am having is that on my image the livewire script was already installed. I copied the script to a friend of mines SD card. I works great, the only problem is that the volume is super low. I have tried adjusting the volume via script (maxvolume) but it stays the same. What I found out is that any mp3 that I physically had on my computer and passed to either SD card the volume would be lower than the original music on the image. Does anyone know if by transferring from the computer onto the SD card (copy/paste) I am somehow messing the volume of the mp3's?

livingonvideo

This is great, thank you! Would it be possible to keep the tracks playing during play, either on a game by game or console by console basis? I'd like to keep the music playing in the background of games that don't have their own (i.e. Atari 2600), or possibly at a lowered volume for other games (to simulate the live, 1980's arcade experience).

Other responses in this post seem to indicate granular controls like this; I assume by playing around with the script? How exactly? I'm a noob at this, but have successfully followed technical instructions thus far. Any suggestions would be most appreciated!