@buffyp00h said in Audio stutter in some SNES games on surround receiver:

All have the same problem on soundbar systems (and likely also on surround receivers).

I just don't get why these particular games generate hdmi sound that gets wrecked by so many setups, one would think there was a way to fix this at the source - the generation of sound on the pi/other device.

Just my 0.02 here, the world of modern TVs and home theater/surround sound devices is needlessly complicated for these simple old tasks we are trying to recreate here with simple digital signals (ironically that are emulations of old analog signals).

What I would try to see if it helps:
Many TVs have a "game mode" that is intended to reduce or eliminate "signal processing" to enable a more pure, delay free signal and timings. Many surround sound receivers have something similar, although it is usually called Pure Audio or Direct Sound mode. You might see if your receiver has this option and try it to see if it eliminates audio hitches.

For what it's worth, I have an Onkyo receiver at home and even with modern consoles I have noticed that something in the HDMI convergence where all video inputs are routed to a single HDMI output to the TV will cause a 'gap' in sounds sometimes. (After a dead silence of any kind, the first sound made is either dropped entirely or gets cut so I only hear part of it before normal audio resumes. Sort of like the audio stream has to buffer up before it becomes stable again.)

EDIT: Hit the submit button too soon and wasn't done typing.

@mitu said in Making sound back after december update broke Pixel Desktop:

sudo apt remove lxplug-volumepulse

Yes! Many thanks @mitu, my menu bar is back. You're fantastic!

@mitu ok, i will do just that. i will have my old image restored, update the OS and retropie, then follow the instructions in the previous thread.

@danmac2 said in No Dialogue or Music in PSX ROMS (pcsx-rearmed):

@dankcushions I have every BIOS you can think of in the bios folder

ok, and the verbose log?

@MeltedPineapple hello! I suspect you're having an eXoDOS version of the game. @mitu is correct in saying there are parameters to help you configure your setup. To have the dosbox.conf (or any conf file or commands) you did use to launch the game would help a lot! Off top of my head here are some parameters you can use to run the game:

c:\> monkey.exe r <- enable Roland MT-32 (requires specific files and setup) c:\> monkey.exe i <- enable internal speaker c:\> monkey.exe a <- enable Soundblaster and Adlib (most compatible) c:\> monkey.exe v <- force VGA

You can use a combination as well:

c:\> monkey.exe a v <- enable Soundblaster and VGA

Search for Monkey Island reference card for DOS on the Web to get more keyboard shortcuts and interesting info. The most interesting shortcut for you would be Ctrl + S which turns on / off the sound (only working for Internal Speaker though).

Note: my recommendation would be for you to give a try to ScummVM for anything Lucasfilm games/LucasArts related. Very easy to use and you'll get the best experience possible. Check Retropie docs here for installation and ScummVM wiki to properly configure the games.

@mitu you are totally right. I switched to carbon and everything sounds great. Thanks for the help.

@yfzdude Totally worked. Thanks for pointing out the doc.

@yoc1983 said in Retroarch audio problem (digital/I2S):

Built From: Pre made Image, Wolfanoz Raspberry Pi 4 Supreme Pro

We don't support 3rd party images - use the image from retropie.org.uk/download if you want support here.

@mitu

I have tried to use ffmpeg to record alsa sound but since there is no capture device . It did not work .

Can you give more details about this

You can try looking into streaming the sound from ALSA through ffmpeg and connecting something like vlc on the PC to stream the audio.

Thanks.

My method in previous post does not guarantee sync in audio and video recording at all . So it is not an ideal solution.
Streaming audio will be a better solution as I will record audio and video on PC together.

@TheRog third party images are not supported here (as outlined in this post), particularly those sold with games already installed. You'll have to contact the seller for support or you can create your own image as outlined here: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/First-Installation/.

For posterity...

I found this wiki page: https://zdoom.org/wiki/Compile_ZDoom_on_Raspberry_Pi

I added .alsoftrc to /home/pi and put this in:

[alsa]
mmap = false

And voila... all sounds and music came back.

I hope this helps someone. It was driving me crazy.

Have you tried the other HDMI port? That happened with me.

Please post some details about your setup, as requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

Post the verbose log when running an emulator to pastebin.com to take a look.

@ruckage Thank for the input and the time you took to try it out.

Scroll sound isn't played on the system select when you hold down the direction button

That seems like a bug, good job for finding it !

The launch sound isn't fully played when launching a game - it's cut off so only a very brief snippet is played. I'm assuming that the closing of ES would need to be delayed until sounds have finished playing.

That's sad, I'm not sure if it's possible to delay it until the sound have finished playing. I will take a look but I can't promise anything.

At the moment you'll notice with the neo geo mini theme the scroll sound is quite bad when continuously scrolling but a very short sound like a quick click for example would likely sound perfect.

The sounds I used are very short but I noticed the same problem. I think the way audio is handled in ES make it so that only one sound is played at a time. If you move the cursor, the sound is played ONLY if another sound isn't already played. This need to be changed, I need to see how the sounds work with the SDL library.

An extra sound for when holding down a direction would be very beneficial - something like <sound name="scroll-continuous">. This could either be left blank if the the developer wanted no sound to be played when continuously scrolling or they could use a shorter sound effect that is suited to fast scrolling.

That sound like an interesting idea, but first let's see what we can do with better sound handling.

@sexbeer

I had a similar issue. It's related to a Pi OS update rather than RetroPie itself. There appears to be a few solutions depending on your setup, but the quickest, hassle free way of fixing for the time being is to open up your /boot/cmdline.txt and add the following to the end, which enables ALSA compatible mode:

snd-bcm2835.enable_compat_alsa=1

If you haven't changed anything else to try to get it to work, a reboot should be all that is required.

Thanks

Try something the configuration from https://sinisterspatula.github.io/RetroflagGpiGuides/StereoDownsampleFix.

I just bought some cheap PC speakers off ebay and then dismantled them from the case. They work well in my bartop.

@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.

Just a thought.....if

<textlist name="gamelist">

with

<scrollSound>./art/scroll.wav</scrollSound>

was added to the grid view, that would enable scrollSound whilst using the grid possibly? maybe that's a workaround?