Background Music [Continued from Help/Support]

Brigane

@huettmaster Are you using any external devices such as a usb sound card?

huettmaster

no. all roms and the music are located on the sd-scard...

jman

I am loading my roms off a usb stick so far pifba and daphne do not work the music just plays right through.

ExarKunIv

@jman

it just might not work. i have come across the port of prince of persia the music plays right thought also.

you might want to look in to using what @synack posted for a different way. Im going to be giving it a try my self. I still like @Livewire version more, but for what ever reason when i have DraStic in the list. my controller stop working.

sucks but what can you do.

johnboyw

I have followed everything and triple checked it. I still have no sound though. I have the pi 3 if that makes any difference?
Can anyone throw any pointers my way?

samuel95_54

@Darby
try
sudo apt-get update
then
sudo apt-get install mpg123

Should work after the update.

johnboyw

@samuel95_54 said in Background Music [Continued from Help/Support]:

@Darby
try
sudo apt-get update
then
sudo apt-get install mpg123

Should work after the update.

I have tried op way and also the mpg123 way. Neither give me sound. I know everything sound related is working as I can hear noises when I navigate around the emulator menus.

ExarKunIv

@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?

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