djvj wrote: ↑Sun May 01, 2022 3:57 am They are named like this:
/media/fat/music/_Sega Dreamcast - Boot.mp3
/media/fat/music/_Sony PS1 - Boot.mp3

My playlists are in subfolders with a pls file. Everything else works great. The boot sounds need to be in a playlist as well? I thought they just need to be prefixed with an underscore.

kirabate wrote: ↑Wed May 18, 2022 4:04 am It's me or the script is broken after the least update?

Juri wrote: ↑Fri Jun 17, 2022 12:27 pm Hi i removed the old version and copied the new bgm.sh to scripts folder, but when i run it from script menu i get this:

wizzo wrote: ↑Fri Jun 17, 2022 12:39 pm

Juri wrote: ↑Fri Jun 17, 2022 12:27 pm Hi i removed the old version and copied the new bgm.sh to scripts folder, but when i run it from script menu i get this:

If you haven't updated in a long time you should probably delete the bgm.ini file in the music folder and try run it again. If that doesn't work, try rename your music folder to something else and run the script, see what it says

I'm not quite sure what this error message means. It looks like something has slipped through my checks

tr88 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 24, 2022 7:14 pm I was having the same problem. I deleted the bgm.ini and remade the music folder, but the music would not play. I had to make a subfolder first (I called it playlist). There was no music in this subfolder, but adding it allowed the music to start playing again.

wizzo wrote: ↑Sun Jun 26, 2022 3:25 pm I've also added the ability to add core-specific boot sounds. So let's say you launch the SNES core, you can make it play a boot sound while that's launching (and then stop playing music like normal).

eLLuiGi wrote: ↑Mon Aug 15, 2022 8:36 am Any ini example for playing internet stream please

So the BGM script won't start automatically after a reboot, is there something else I need to do to configure it? I'm having a similar issue with SAM, wondering if there's something basic I messed up that might interfere

Tritopher wrote: ↑Thu Dec 01, 2022 2:36 am

So the BGM script won't start automatically after a reboot, is there something else I need to do to configure it? I'm having a similar issue with SAM, wondering if there's something basic I messed up that might interfere

Hi mate. It should just be automatic. Can you please post the contents of your user-startup.sh file? it should be in the linux folder on the sd card if you check on your computer or /media/fat/linux/user-startup.sh if you're going over the network.

Thanks, this is what I have in the file:

#!/bin/sh

Startup MiSTer_SAM - Super Attract Mode

[[ -e /media/fat/Scripts/.MiSTer_SAM/MiSTer_SAM_init ]] && /media/fat/Scripts/.MiSTer_SAM/MiSTer_SAM_init $1

Startup BGM

[[ -e /media/fat/Scripts/bgm.sh ]] && /media/fat/Scripts/bgm.sh $1

So I had bought a preconfigured MiSTer, I decided to try just doing a fresh install on a new SD card with the newest versions of everything and it worked no problem. Thanks for the replies, still wondering what the issue was but happy to have it working as expected.

eLLuiGi wrote: ↑Mon Aug 15, 2022 8:36 am

Any ini example for playing internet stream please

Check out the zipfile on the "2" tab in this thread. It has examples that I'm using.

80.pls

[playlist]
NumberOfEntries=1
File1=http://server5.radio-streams.net:8001/live
Length1=-1

This is the stream Super Attract Mode is playing when enabling BGM.

prom wrote: ↑Mon Aug 15, 2022 12:27 pm

Try this for a selection of synthwave : https://hubble.shoutca.st:2199/tunein/synthwave.pls

I played it in my pc this playlist, looks nice recommendation

I've started using BGM and I have some questions. I downloaded:
Blank Banshee - Music For Menus from bandcamp. The _boot mp3 plays followed by a random looping track. Super super cool!

1. The music is almost twice as loud as the cores but the BGM volume is controlled by the master volume. Is there a way to change volume to the main menu core?

2. The boot mp3 and music take some time to start, ₂₀ seconds. The wifi and other mister features all seem to come on at the same time with the music. Is there a way to start it sooner?

Sorry if I'm asking something already covered in the github, I'm more artist than engineer I could edit the mp3s in audacity if I really need to change the volume. Xox great script regardless!!

I have also the same issue with the volume.

The starting time is something that can't be changed i think as the mister needs to startup befor the scripts start running.

Yopachi wrote: ↑Fri Dec 30, 2022 9:14 am

1. The music is almost twice as loud as the cores but the BGM volume is controlled by the master volume. Is there a way to change volume to the main menu core?

2. The boot mp3 and music take some time to start, ₂₀ seconds. The wifi and other mister features all seem to come on at the same time with the music. Is there a way to start it sooner?

Hi. Glad it is mostly working well for you.

For number 1: I believe there actually is a way now to control the main volume via script, so this may finally be fixed. I have to investigate the best way to handle it though, because I still need to make the script manually manage the main volume, and make a decision on how to best decide that volume or receive an input for a setting. Anyway, quickest solution is to change the volume on all your songs manually, but watch this space.

2: Nothing I can do about that one from my end sorry. It's just the nature of mister's current boot process. I think you could probably make it start faster yourself, maybe by moving the scripts launch to inittab or making a custom service file. Problem with this is that your changes may disappear after a linux update, and on my end it's actually a good thing to wait for the network to come up because some people use radio streams with the script.

If you're starting the music player with a script in /etc/init.d, just renaming it would change the boot order. The scripts are run in SXXscriptname order, so that S30dbus runs before S40network. If you rename the music player script to be something like S39whatever, it will launch before the network script runs.

However, between Linux updates and whatever wizzo's management script is doing, these changes could disappear, or end up launching the player twice. Expect pain if you start dabbling.

If anyone else is editing their mp3s in Audacity, I used the dropdown for "Effects" then "Amplify" -13 db
Dropping my tracks about 13 decibels seemed to match the other cores for me. I'm getting used to the music starting with wifi. It's a nice audio que that I can start transferring files

Recently I added support for BGM to change the global volume at core/menu launch. So you can set a custom volume while in the menu. This is a workaround for the problem where people's music plays too loud/quiet compared to the cores.

See here for instructions to use it: https://github.com/wizzomafizzo/MiSTer_ ... me-control

Basically just update bgm to latest version, turn your mister off and on again, then set the 2 new "Menu volume" and "Default volume" settings from the bgm gui.

This has been buggy, so I'm curious for feedback about it. I have had a report that the feature introduces a "popping" noise on core launch that I can't reproduce. In general it works well though.

Malor wrote: ↑Tue Jan 03, 2023 12:03 am

However, between Linux updates and whatever wizzo's management script is doing, these changes could disappear, or end up launching the player twice. Expect pain if you start dabbling.

For me, all I do is add a line to user-startup.sh to launch the BGM script as a daemon. It checks if it's running already, so I think should be no harm my end messing about and trying to make a new init script without any other changes. I did actually try to do this a long time ago, but for some reason it the script still didn't start playing until network came up, and I gave up. I don't know if I goofed something up or if it was some other issue.

If someone made a working init script that launches before bluetooth and network I would be happy to add it to the repo and mention in the docs about it as an option.