Background Music [Continued from Help/Support]

zerojay

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.

ExarKunIv

@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

milleland

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

Nayin

@milleland Change the emulator name to: daphne.sh

mitaholo

@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.

Auz10

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!

BobHarris

@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.

ByteThis

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

zerojay

Is there a particular reason you guys aren't using the runcommand-onstart and onend scripts to kill and restart the music without needing to add emulator names anywhere?

BobHarris

@bytethis No sorry. I figured out the names of some emulators by starting an emulator, opening winscp on my pc, connecting to the pi, opening a terminal in winscp and typing: ps -A . This shows you the names of all the running programs. You could find out what name is used for the Pixel Desktop and add it to the emulator list (treating it as an emulator). But I have no idea if that even works. I can't think of any other solution, except trying a different route , like the method Zerojay is talking about.

@zerojay There are some extra functionalities: Set a startsong, start a new song after exiting a game, music fade out when starting a game. When you add the missing emulators, it works just as well.

ByteThis

@bobharris Ok..thanks ! I will play around with it and see what I can come up with.

ExarKunIv

@zerojay

i believe the other way that is posted here uses the runcommand to kill it, but it is way to sudden. some people like that way.
personally i like this way, yes it can be a pain to get the emulator to stop the music, but for me that is half the fun :)

Lexx

Hey. I'm using the script from OP for a while now. Is there a way to mute and resume or start/stop it?
I can't figure out how :(

Ranma

Just wanted to add thanks for this method of adding music to the Pi. It works beautifully and has been glitch free for me so far. :-) Very easy to setup. Brilliant!

madmodder123

I updated this script to add overlays of song titles when browsing ES
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/16458/modfied-background-music-script-with-added-overlays
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m0riarty

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darknior

I have try the script, and the other solutions and that never pause the music when OMXPlayer read a video.
Is there a solution ? i don't understand how to do it.
The music is only PAUSE when i launch an emulator.
Thanks

madmodder123

@darknior emulatornames = ["retroarch","ags","uae4all2","uae4arm","capricerpi","linapple","hatari","stella","atari800","xroar","vice","daphne","reicast","pifba","osmose","gpsp","jzintv","basiliskll","mame","advmame","dgen","openmsx","mupen64plus","gngeo","dosbox","ppsspp","simcoupe","scummvm","snes9x","pisnes","frotz","fbzx","fuse","gemrb","cgenesis","zdoom","eduke32","lincity","love","kodi","alephone","micropolis","openbor","openttd","opentyrian","cannonball","tyrquake","ioquake3","residualvm","xrick","sdlpop","uqm","stratagus","wolf4sdl","solarus","drastic","coolcv","PPSSPPSDL","moonlight","Xorg","smw","omxplayer.bin"]

darknior

@madmodder123 It works thanks a lot.
I don't have think the OMX must be in list too :p

I'm not using /etc/rc.local to launch it at start, autostart.sh is better i think :)

python /home/pi/retropie_bgm.py 2>&1 1>/dev/null &
emulationstation

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

Delayed Start. Change startdelay to a value (in seconds) if you need the script to delay itself for some reason. At first this would have been for something like a video splash screen, but:

It's a delay to launch music at start.

But is it possible to add a delay to resume music every time the music is paused ?
because I can hear it between 2 videos, and many small stealthy moments like that where it should not.

I have try :

            #Turn up the music
            print "Emulator finished, resuming audio..."
            if not restart:
                time.sleep(5);
                mixer.music.unpause() #resume

I think it's here but i'm not sure how to do it?
It work for the ES menu, the music come back after 5 sec, but some times i can always listen it between 2 videos and it don't take me more than 2 3 seconds to change game.
Thanks

darknior

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

I'm not using /etc/rc.local to launch it at start, autostart.sh is better :)

So stupid it's my bug, the & after emulationstation :(
But rc.local not working for me.
If some one can help for this too ?