No music in RetroPie

[DrBuns3n]

I compiled jfsw on a Pi4 running RetroPie 4.7, but although there's sound effects, the music is not playing.

I copied the MUSIC folder to the jfsw folder on my Pi. I understand JFSW expects the music tracks to be in the same folder as the binary so I edited the config file, /home/pi/.jfsw/sw.cfg and added the music folder as below:

OggTrackName = "MUSIC/track??.ogg"

I also tried the default location for the music tracks and reverted the sw.cfg file, but that didn't make any difference.

[jonof]

I suggest first verifying that the game was built with Ogg Vorbis support by running this command at a terminal: ldd /path/to/jfsw/sw | grep -E 'ogg|vorbis'

You should see output like:

$ ldd sw | grep -E 'ogg|vorbis'
        libvorbisfile.so.3 => /usr/lib/.../libvorbisfile.so.3 (0x.....)
        libvorbis.so.0 => /usr/lib/.../libvorbis.so.0 (0x.....)
        libogg.so.0 => /usr/lib/.../libogg.so.0 (0x.....)

If you don't see that, you'll want to install the libvorbis-dev package and use make clean sw to recompile.
If you do see output like above, then something else is going on and I'll try to think of what it could be.

[s1eve-mcdichae1]

Posting to this issue instead of starting a new one since I also am having music issues on RetroPie.

Should there be MIDI music if I don't have the OGG tracks? The OGG tracks do work if I have them, I'm just trying to do it without them, if that is even possible.

I have built with:

make DATADIR="/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/shadowwarrior" RELEASE=1 USE_POLYMOST=1 USE_OPENGL=USE_GLES2 WITHOUT_GTK=1

SFX and Ambience work. OGG music works if tracks are present in DATADIR. No music at all if OGG tracks are not present.

I've tried building and playing both with and without libfluidsynth-dev installed. When it was installed, launching the game took a bit longer as it scrolled through some kind of ("socket failure"? I forget exactly) errors but it eventually did load, but there still wasn't any music. Other possibly-relevant packages I have installed are: libgl1-mesa-dev libsdl2-dev libvorbis-dev timidity freepats

I'm on Raspberry Pi 4 using Raspbian/Debian 10 lite (terminal, no X/desktop environment.)

I have tried it with the sw.grp and sw.rts files from the GOG Classic Complete edition, as well as from the SWINST directory of the Shadow Warrior (USA) CD-ROM. Do I need anything besides these two files?

[jonof]

The Registered version sw.grp doesn't provide MIDI music. Only the Shareware version has it.

[s1eve-mcdichae1]

The Registered version sw.grp doesn't provide MIDI music. Only the Shareware version has it.

Ah, I did not know that, however I still am getting no music even with the shareware version. I have a console log, if it helps. I see these "cannot connect to server socket err" but I don't know what they mean:

Executing: /opt/retropie/ports/jfsw/sw ""
fluidsynth: warning: Failed to pin the sample data to RAM; swapping is possible.
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
exec of JACK server (command = "/usr/bin/jackd") failed: No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory

(full log at https://pastebin.com/WSC2nYcC)

[jonof]

FluidSynth tries to use the JACK output driver by default. With FluidSynth version 1.1 you would need to tell it to use ALSA or PulseAudio instead via the ~/.jfsw/sw.cfg file, e.g.

[Sound Setup]
MusicParams = "audio.driver=pulseaudio"
FXDevice = 0
...

[s1eve-mcdichae1]

@jonof this worked with "audio.driver=alsa", thanks.