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Front End Support => MaLa Frontend => Topic started by: capitaineflam25 on August 25, 2013, 07:32:14 am

Title: Buggy background music workaround
Post by: capitaineflam25 on August 25, 2013, 07:32:14 am

Hi,

The built in background music feature is too unstable for my needs:
random crashes or stops, difficulties with some characters (like "'") in the mp3s, non wanted stop when screensaver starts, issue with the fade in/out feature.

So i tried to do something different with a lightweight external player and i'm happy with the result.

So you can install Foobar 2000 (tested with 1.29, you can download it on http://www.foobar2000.org/download (http://www.foobar2000.org/download)), and prepare a playlist.
If you like it, you can select the "Shuffle" option, which is a enhanced random feature, to avoid track reapeat.
I have also activated Fade In/Out for a smoother experience, autogain and always reduce in tray feature.



Then you can create a bat file to both start Foobar and Mala:

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  @echo off
  start foobar2000.exe /play /hide
  start MaLa.exe

And a second bat file which you will launch from MaLa instead of mame.exe:

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  @echo off
  foobar2000.exe  /pause
  mame.exe %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6
  foobar2000.exe /play
Enjoy your rock solid background player with fade/in out feature  ;D

Title: Re: Buggy background music workaround
Post by: loadman on November 30, 2013, 03:54:49 am

Nice,

But I must fix this....

Remind me

Title: Re: Buggy background music workaround
Post by: gemini6920@hotmail.com on April 10, 2014, 12:02:53 am

Loadman,
Have you worked on fixing the background music issue? I love Mala, but really want background music to play automatically when i start Mala,   Saw this post that said remind you to fix this, so here is your reminder.  Does anyone have any tips on how to make this work?