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      Nayin
      last edited by Nayin

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

      @Nayin How do you play your BGM - via mpg123 = @synack method
      or via phyton script?

      The Amiberry emulator, how do you start it? Via runcommand.sh? Means you see they grey loading box if you select a ROM?

      Via phyton script, I start the emulator using emulationstation (WHDLoad Pack).

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        cyperghost @Nayin
        last edited by cyperghost

        @nayin My first suggestion is to edit python script and add emulatorname to it
        line 25 in https://pastebin.com/7E9JiZGQ

        You can check if emulator is running via SSH and ps -a command to get correct name. The mpg123 is better imho as it relies on runcommand ...

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          Nayin @cyperghost
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          @cyperghost

          Thx! The correct name is amiberry.sh

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            cyperghost
            last edited by cyperghost

            That won't work as amiberry is a bash file.... start the emulator and use ps -a command to extract emuname it's 99% likely amiberry but not sure...

            You need the name of the binary... Maybe if you edit the amiberry.sh you see binary call and add the name to the python script

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              xXRedxSlugXx
              last edited by

              I understand this is a forum for Rasp Pi stuff but trust me I've searched far and wide for a solution.

              Anybody have a clue on how to implement this into the windows version of emulation station?

              I've tried doing it with running python on PC and attempting to edit some of the scripts but my knowledge of scripting is well frankly poor so yeah...

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                numotiv
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                Been a while since I have had time to tweak my retropie setup. Is there a way to stop the bgm when the screensaver begins? I have videos for all my games that randomly play.

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                  MicroMachineV5 @Livewire
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                  @livewire
                  wow, thank you so much, this works perfect for me. :)

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                    linkreincarnate
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                    I found a tutorial that allows you to use voice commands to play songs from youtube.

                    if you install python3-pip then it works great. You just tell google to play whatever you want to hear and it plays it from youtube. in the background.

                    It's not really easier than this because you have to install google assistant (which means setting up an oauth key) but if you can follow semi-technical walkthroughs you can do it and have remote storage of most songs.

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                      Vic3Vers4
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                      Hi Im having a hard time getting this to run. I used all the same locations as you did, i used the latest script you wrote, put all the music which were ogg files in a music folder inside the roms folder, my file is called Test1.py, and placed inside PyScripts which is in /home/pi. I wrote out the rc.local line exactly as you did, including the quotes and &. The music just wont play, and im not getting any sort of error messages when i go back to the terminal. Whats even stranger about all of this, is Ive gotten this to work on other pies in the past, this time i did a fresh install of everything on a 128gb sd card, and the background music wont work (this is the first time ive tried to install it on retropie 4.3, and the first time i have video scraped roms) . But after updating one of my old pies, the background music still works on them. Is anyone else having trouble with this????

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                        COOL_IRON
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                        Is it possible to create custom launch file for specific rom that will not disable music?

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                          monstergubl
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                          hey guys i follow the easy way but i have one problem: my pi says the bgm folder already exsist but i cannot find the folder anywhere i tried over USB and Windows PC to copie my mp3, when i create the folder my pi says that he cannot create an exsisting folder

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                            AnAssassinsBlade @Livewire
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                            @livewire so I Googled how to put background music on my retro pi. Well I get this error about one songs says it's not an Ogg file yet all the songs play it doesn't even tell me which song it is so I have no idea which one it could be you got any suggestions?

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                              zerojay
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                              I've found that mpg123 will occasionally make my entire pi freeze when idle for a while so just in case you've been getting this like I have, kill mpg123 and see if it fixes your stability problems.

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                                ExarKunIv @AnAssassinsBlade
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                                @anassassinsblade
                                that is odd, i have only mp3 in mine and i dont get any errors

                                other then having to remove and put one song in at a time, i would say try a different format maybe

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                                  milleland @jman
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                                  @jman Hi did you solved the problem with the music background while you run Daphne? Thanks a lot

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                                    Nayin @milleland
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                                    @milleland Change the emulator name to: daphne.sh

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                                      mitaholo @gazzhally
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                                      @gazzhally

                                      "vice.sh" seems to work.

                                      You can see the tree of running processes with the shell command pstree. Compare the trees while running different emulators or ports and you should find the correct process name.

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                                        Auz10
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                                        EXCELLENT METHOD, by far the best and most simplist so far. No errors anywhere either. My only issue is as stated previously when launching LXDE/Pixel from ES, music continues. Also when launching PPSSPP for PSP games, the music continues. Any advice sir? Any and all assistance will be highly appreciated!

                                        Some just re-image. Some actually look for the break in the code. I am somewhere between~

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                                          BobHarris @Auz10
                                          last edited by

                                          @auz10 You need to edit this file: bgmusic.py (located in /home/pi/PyScripts). In here add PPSSPPSDL to the list of emulators. Now the music will stop when you start PPSSPP.

                                          Pi 3B , 64 GB Sandisk ultra flashdrive, 19 systems, 872 hand picked classic gaming gems :-) Dual shock 4v2

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                                            ByteThis @BobHarris
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                                            @bobharris Would you have a solution to kill the music when launching the Pixel Desktop (Chromium) ?

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