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    How to mute game sound only.

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      Yonut
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      I'm looking to play music when I'm in RetroPie. Everything is working correctly, both joysticks, music player, and RetroPie.

      The problem is that I can't figure out how to block the games sound f/x from the audio out. It seems that muting feature of Retropie mutes the whole system, not just the game.

      Is there a way to stop the games sounds effects and not have the whole system muted?

      RPI 3 Model B

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        BuZz administrators @Yonut
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        @Yonut How are you muting ? Which Emulator ?

        Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

        To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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          Yonut @BuZz
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          @BuZz Sorry, I didn;t think things like 'Power Supply Used' were relevant to this.

          RPI 3
          Power Supply 2A
          RetproPie 4.1
          SD Image from website
          2x USB Xbox controllers connected and working
          No error messages received
          Log not relevant (or is it?!?)
          No guides used
          Emulators: lr-fceumm (for nes); lr-stella (for atari)

          Just need to know how to mute the game and not the system. The only option I have available is when I hit start, a white menu comes up and under 'Sound Settings' there is a mute. I don't know of any other way under Retropie to stop the games sound.

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            Yonut
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            It looks like Stella has a '-mute' option, but I don't see where I can add this to?
            https://stella-emu.github.io/changelog.html

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              BuZz administrators @Yonut
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              @Yonut said in How to mute game sound only.:

              @BuZz Sorry, I didn;t think things like 'Power Supply Used' were relevant to this.

              Power supply may not be, but lots of the other information is - but as you are asking for help, it's best just to provide as much information as you can and let us decide what is relevant.

              Emulators: lr-fceumm (for nes); lr-stella (for atari)

              You can mute libretro emulators via RGUI -> Start+X / Settings / Audio

              To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                Yonut @BuZz
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                @BuZz said in How to mute game sound only.:

                You can mute libretro emulators via RGUI -> Start+X / Settings / Audio

                I can't find RGUI or startx on RetroPie. How do I access this?

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                  BuZz administrators @Yonut
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                  @Yonut you press start + button X in game. See the retropie retroarch documentation

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                    Yonut @BuZz
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                    @BuZz said in How to mute game sound only.:

                    @Yonut you press start + button X in game. See the retropie retroarch documentation

                    Ty, but turns out it is select + X. It's also RGUI -> Settings / Audio

                    I found out it works on half of my ROMS, but the other half won't load at all when the 'Audio Enabled' is set to 'OFF'. I don't know where the problem is, and I'm tired.

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                      BuZz administrators @Yonut
                      last edited by BuZz

                      @Yonut well i got the settings / audio location right, but yes, select + x. Guess I'm tired.

                      Perhaps the option affects some games. Don't know as never used it.

                      To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                        Yonut
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                        Ok, you can't use 'Audio Enabled' or 'Audio Mute' because not all roms work.

                        But you can make 'Audio Volume Level (db)' to '-80.0'. Seems to work on all roms.

                        @BuZz Ty for your help.

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                          Yonut
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                          Ok, solution found. I don't know why the two settings are different... but anyway.

                          I was able to stop all game sounds for nes by editing the file:
                          /opt/retropie/configs/nes/retroarch.cfg

                          audio_enabled = "false"

                          This works and doesn't stop the roms from working like using the select-X method. Now working on atari (stella)

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