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Title: Pausing background music during screen saver
Post by: lordmagnet on September 14, 2010, 10:26:30 pm

Hello all. A little introduction, I am currently building my first mame cabinet, and this is my first post on this forum.  I am 99% done with the cpu going into the cabinet and I've found the solutions to all my problems on this forum, except for one. 

I have MaLa set up to play a series of videos on the screen saver.  Now I can't seem to pause the background music in MaLa when I have the screen saver playing, so I am getting simultaneous sounds/music from both sources.  So any idea how to fix this (just have sound from the screen saver)?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Title: Re: Pausing background music during screen saver
Post by: loadman on September 15, 2010, 01:31:30 am

 :o

I guess what would be ideal is in you have sound enabled on screensaver videos then you want BG music to pause?

But if the screensvaver is images or you choose not to have sound on videos shoud the music still play?

What options should there be , and what section of config should they be in?

Title: Re: Pausing background music during screen saver
Post by: lordmagnet on September 15, 2010, 02:31:57 pm

It seems to me that an option in "GUI > Screensaver > Options" such as "Pause background music (maybe even jukebox) in Screensaver" would be a great feature that would solve my issue.  Putting it next to "Disable video sounds", people could check both options for complete silence from all sources.

This would also allow those who have a picture screensaver to keep music playing by just keeping this option unchecked.  Maybe there are some people with picture screen saver who would prefer to pause background music also, but this suggested option would work for everyone.

Title: Re: Pausing background music during screen saver
Post by: loadman on September 17, 2010, 06:40:23 am

Try this beat version.

It should pause music if video audio is enabled.

I have not tested it so it could be I got it the wrong way around. ???

Let me know how it goes for you  ;D


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Title: Re: Pausing background music during screen saver
Post by: lordmagnet on September 28, 2010, 10:55:55 pm

It works perfectly.  Thank you for your help. 

Title: Re: Pausing background music during screen saver
Post by: loadman on October 03, 2010, 05:15:08 am

Quote from: lordmagnet on September 28, 2010, 10:55:55 pm

It works perfectly.  Thank you for your help. 

Excellent