Is there no interest in having retropie run as a service on top of a full desktop environment?

Not on the Raspberry Pi.
RetroPie (ES + emulators) works fine on a PC platform from the desktop, but the audio configuration is handled by the system/desktop environment and there's not much that RetroPie configures at this point, it just used the default audio device that's register in the system (i.e. in PipeWire/PulseAudio).

EDIT: as explained before, you need to find the right Audio Card setting which works for you. Try using PCM/Master instead of HDMI, it should work.

@abj Thanks. This fixed the audio for me.
On my unsupported pi5 setup, switching to the Pegasus frontend killed the audio, and switching back to ES was not fixing it.

@Fantasens said in Sound not working with HifiBerry Rapberry Pi 4 with OSMC:

Is there no way to configure Retropie so that it behaves like Kodi by playing audio from both the TV and the Audio card?

'RetroPie' - or rather EmulationStation - uses ALSA. If you can configure ALSA so that it behaves like Kodi with the default card/output, then EmulationStation - and probably emulators - are going to work the way you want.

The only configuration for ALSA that RetroPie does is the one from the Audio menu, where you can choose between the audio outputs present on a Pi - Analog/HDMI. For more complex configuration you'll need to configure ALSA yourself.

@mitu Weird, I wonder why it does that? Is there a way for Duckstation to not change the audio?

@kartillian said in No Audio but only in ES / Roms:

I now still get the error message.

This means the Audio Device is not set properly in the EmulationStation settings. Make sure you have chosen 'HDMI' as the output in the Audio settings dialog in the RetroPie menu, then configure again ES with Default/HDMI as Audio Card/Device.

EDIT: I've merged your new topic here. Please don't open separate topics for the same issue.

@bulbisaur685 said in Pi Zero - screen and i2s using same pins, no sound:

I have both devices connected to the pins on the Pi Zero, but when going into the settings for audio I am getting information that the audio is disabled

That message is shown because the audio configuration utility only knows about the on-board audio. For any other configuration - where you disabled the on-board - you'll need to configure the audio yourself.

My suggestion would be to start with the audio configuration first (in config.txt) and then try to configure the screen once you've got audio working.

@mitu omg! i did it! thank you so much! you're a life saver! it was the emulator the whole time, thank you so much man... i was trying so hard just to get this one game to work since i got the retro pi and it finally works! i have so many great memories with this game including my family and now i can experience it all again.

I was able to get my USB headset to work.

First I changed from mame4all-pi on RetroPie 4.5 to lr-mame2000 on RetroPie 4.7.1 because I learned mame4all-pi doesn't have an option to rotate the display and my objective is to play classic vertical arcade games on a vertical (rotated) monitor.

Second I created /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf (using sudo vi) containing:
options snd_usb_audio index=0
options snd_bcm2835 index=1
options snd slots=snd_usb_audio,snd_bcm2835
(leaving dtparam=audio=on in /boot/config.txt)

This reorders the "cards" so the USB headset is card 0, hdmi is card 1 and PWM is card 2. What I found is dtparam=audio=off still configured the USB headset as card 1 for whatever reason and I didn't get audio. After reordering it worked without any other modifications (although ES gives an error about unable to set volume, which is probably just a minor configuration tweak).

@mitu
That's what I figured. Figured it was worth a shot in trying to fix it. I appreciate the help and defiantly a learning experience to say the least.

Probably why he was hesitant to tell me... go figure. lol oh well.

@t3stin I don't know, I use a stock config and this is not set on my system. If you just want to test the sound, there's a command line speaker-test command you can use. Or download an .mp3 and play it from the command line with cvlc.

@77claws Have you tried configuring the sound output from the Audio menu in RetroPie ? Choose the Headphones jack as the default sound output and it should route all audio over the 3.5mm jack.

Thanks for the reply.
Removing the line autospawn=no enabled PulseAudio again if I'm not mistaking.

Already tried the 3rd answer on that thread with no luck.

@deceased10 turn the volume to 100%. Use the menu to quit and shutdown. During that shutdown process it will save your settings.

@Darksavior Thanks!

@mitu ok then, mupen64plus