Background Music [Continued from Help/Support]

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

edmaul69

@Livewire i cannot get the music to stop in coolcv by adding it to line 25. ive tried ,"coolcv" ,"coleco" and ,"colecovision"to no avail.

backstander

@edmaul69

@Livewire i cannot get the music to stop in coolcv by adding it to line 25. ive tried ,"coolcv" ,"coleco" and ,"colecovision"to no avail.

Did you try "coolcv_pi"? Make sure you have the "_pi" after "coolcv".

x5PUDx

I had to make an edit to rc.local for my PS3 controller to work and my BGM has stopped working, just wondering if someone could give this a once over and point me in the right direction.

if [ "$_IP" ]; then
  printf "My IP address is %s\n" "$_IP"
fi
(sudo python /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/music/script/retropie_bgm.py) &
sixad --start &
exit 0

ExarKunIv

@x5PUDx

try moving sixad to be before your music script

like this

if [ "$_IP" ]; then
  printf "My IP address is %s\n" "$_IP"
fi

sixad --start &

(sudo python /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/music/script/retropie_bgm.py) &

exit 0

thats all i got, i dont use a ps3 controller so i cant try it out

Muddyhardcore

Went through this entire thread and not a single person simply answered the question of how to get Music to STOP playing when launching something from Ports or in my case Launching Kodi from its own system menu. Could anyone just give simple instructions on what lines to add to where?

Muddyhardcore

Where on the system is Music.py located?

Muddyhardcore

@vinnyl69
Did you ever get an answer on the how add an emulator (in my case Kodi as it's own system) to stop the background music when it's launched?