Background Music [Continued from Help/Support]

ExarKunIv

ahhh

it is possible that the emulator is not called vice when it starts. or it is one of the odd ones that will not stop. i have come across that with prince of persia.
just like yours music will not stop.

gazzhally

@ExarKunIv I thought of that. Added all the different instances of vice (lr-vice64, etc) still no luck :(

ExarKunIv

@gazzhally

yea i think you have hit one that will not stop the music.

well the other way that @synack posted works. just not has fancy

tmak

Hi I'm hoping someone knows how to fix this:

I installed background music on retropie 4.2 pi3 per drew talks youtube video:

It works perfect and the music shuts down for every emulator when a game starts, except i just installed DraStic, and for some reason the music won't stop for any of the games using this emulator.

Does anyone have a fix for this?

Thanks,

backstander

@tmak
You need to edit the music.py script and add the DraStic emulator's process name to the list.

I haven't tested this but I think this is what you need to do. Just add "drastic" to this list:

#TODO: Fill in all of the current RetroPie Emulator process names in this list.
emulatornames = ["drastic","retroarch","ags"............]

BTW, do you know what the name is of the "royalty free" techno song that he used in his video?

Brigane

@backstander

ExarKunIv

@tmak

i have the same problem and so far it will not shut off.
I have added both DraStic and nds. the music still plays.

so sadly if NDS is wanted to be played @synack music player must be used.

untill someone can rework @Livewire version to just detect the same thing that @synack version looks far

backstander

@Brigane
Over lunch I played this song in my car...man it has some crazy bass! My wife was kind of embarrassed riding around with me blasting this song when we went to lunch together ;-)

backstander

@ExarKunIv
Just a note...make sure it is in all lowercase like "drastic"...also I'm not 100% sure that's what the process name is for DraStic. Whatever the actually process name is, that is what needs to be put in the script in the "emulatornames =" line.

Brigane

@backstander lol, I think I would've driven around by myself to get the attention instead :D

ExarKunIv

@backstander

yep i know,
i have it both ways, for sh#t and giggles

and i checked the runcommand.log
the it comes up with nds and then drastic right after.

some games the music.py script does not see. so far i know of three

tmak

@backstander

Hey, thanks for the tip. I did exactly what you said added "drastic" As the very last name In the emulator name list in music.py and it works! :)
I used
Sudo mc to locate the file then
nano to edit it.

So far I have tried new super Mario world and surfs up, and the music shuts down.

Now I won't be keeping my gf up at 4am with that antikdote track hahaha.

My next issue, is for some reason the file doesn't save in New super Mario world. I gotta search through the forums for that.

tmak

@ExarKunIv

Hey, it worked for me. I'm using the latest Retro pie script. And latest version of drastic. Try that maybe.

backstander

@ExarKunIv
Maybe try added "drastic" as the very last emulator on the list like @tmak did?

ExarKunIv

@backstander

i know that im running 4.2.1 now, and i have "drastic" as the last one...but i don't think i updated the emulator. ill give that a shot

EDIT
ok weird it is now working. all i did was move "drastic" to be the first game in the list

anasazi29

@dragon3gabriel Hey man. There is alot to read with over 200 posts on this particular subject, but I was wondering if you found out how to get the BGM script to mute the sound when using the PPSSPP emulator? I did. In the script under emulators just put in "PPSSPPSDL" and reboot.
The emulators execution is that name and causes the script to acknowledge and mute accordingly.

Thanks,
Anasazi

RaoulAngel

So I am just seeing all this for the first time. I am putting together an NES classic styled project, that uses this script to play menu music, but I was wondering if there is a way to (from a menu or something) select the music playing as a choice. Some people might not want to have it. I am planning on giving these away at functions and meetings and stuff for people to enjoy, and trying to tweak the thing to make it as idiot-proof as possible. I would like to remove any configuration menus and such but also somehow give the user a way to toggle to menu music off if they choose.

Any ideas?

vinnyl69

@Livewire
@Livewire

re: Background Music [Continued from Help/Support] coolcv

hello! the background music does not turn off when going into coolcv for colecovision games. i have read that sometimes emulators need to be added to the emulator list for this to work. can you give some guidance on finding this 'list'?? thanks!!

backstander

@vinnyl69
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/post/68239
You would need to edit your music.py script and add coolcv_pi (or whatever the emulator's process name is) to the "emulatornames" list:

#TODO: Fill in all of the current RetroPie Emulator process names in this list.
emulatornames = ["retroarch","ags", ........ ,"coolcv_pi"]

I've had better results added them to the end of the list.

vinnyl69

@backstander
worked! was a lot more simple than i thought.... did not realize the file could be opened in notepad. thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!