Defiled_Popsicle1 Posted November 29, 2017 Share Posted November 29, 2017 (edited) Ive been playing around with the music functions in Big Box and have run into a bit of a wall. Ive got a bunch of games that have their own music linked that play when I scroll over the titles in the playlist menus but If I turn on background music in Big Box it wont play the game tracks when I scroll over them I have to go into the game menu and manually turn on the game soundtrack. Is there a way to set Big Box to auto-play game soundtracks then go back to auto-playing my background music for games that dont have music linked to them? Edited November 29, 2017 by Defiled_Popsicle1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MayorQwert Posted November 30, 2017 Share Posted November 30, 2017 I am actually wondering the exact same thing myself. I have a ton of games on Big Box and really don't want to have to download music for ALL of the games, so it'd be great if there was a way to play music for only some games and have the rest be my generic background music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Styphelus Posted November 30, 2017 Share Posted November 30, 2017 Wondering the same. Also, has anyone found a way to have the background music play at a lower volume? It clashes badly with the platform and game videos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Defiled_Popsicle1 Posted December 1, 2017 Author Share Posted December 1, 2017 9 hours ago, Styphelus said: Wondering the same. Also, has anyone found a way to have the background music play at a lower volume? It clashes badly with the platform and game videos. Pretty sure there is a sound option to tell big box to prioritize platform video audio. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Styphelus Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 There is but all that does is play the video audio over the background music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MayorQwert Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 2 hours ago, Styphelus said: There is but all that does is play the video audio over the background music. There's an option to set the volume of the background music in the sound settings of Bigbox at the bottom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MayorQwert Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 I noticed there's an option in Big Box to "Prioritize Soundtrack Music over Video Audio", I just wish there was a "Prioritize Soundtrack Music over Background Music" option that would pause the background music and play the soundtrack audio for games that have it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Defiled_Popsicle1 Posted December 1, 2017 Author Share Posted December 1, 2017 1 minute ago, MayorQwert said: I just wish there was a "Prioritize Soundtrack Music over Background Music" option that would pause the background music and play the soundtrack audio for games that have it. The dev could probably easily update this in. I havent been able to find any other way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MayorQwert Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 29 minutes ago, Defiled_Popsicle1 said: The dev could probably easily update this in. I havent been able to find any other way. To be honest, that'd probably be reason enough for me to pay the $30 to get the updates. I certainly hope, assuming it's not somehow already possible, that they add it in soon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LogicalEgo Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 Something you could do to work around this is create a symlink from your background/music folder and drop it as the platform or game name, takes up less than 1k. I never tried it but worth a shot, it should work in theory. https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MayorQwert Posted December 2, 2017 Share Posted December 2, 2017 5 hours ago, keltoigael said: Something you could do to work around this is create a symlink from your background/music folder and drop it as the platform or game name, takes up less than 1k. I never tried it but worth a shot, it should work in theory. https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/ Sorry if I am not following this correctly, but are you suggesting make a folder for every game, and have all of the folders for games that do not have music link to the location of the normal background music and the ones that do have music keep unlinked so it plays the music within the folder, all while leaving background music technically disabled in the options? Please clear this up if I am mistaken, I hadn't heard of symlinks before you posted about it today and have only had a chance to skim the article you posted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Styphelus Posted December 2, 2017 Share Posted December 2, 2017 (edited) 16 hours ago, MayorQwert said: There's an option to set the volume of the background music in the sound settings of Bigbox at the bottom. Ahhhh....you have to scroll down past the bottom of the screen. Holly...can't tell you how many times I've been through this menu and never saw that option. What i did was lower the decibes in my background music so it was quieter. Guess I won't have to do that again. Edited December 2, 2017 by Styphelus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MayorQwert Posted December 2, 2017 Share Posted December 2, 2017 7 hours ago, Styphelus said: Ahhhh....you have to scroll down past the bottom of the screen. Holly...can't tell you how many times I've been through this menu and never saw that option. What i did was lower the decibes in my background music so it was quieter. Guess I won't have to do that again. Glad my insight was useful! I'm still mega new to Launchbox/Bigbox, but I have been doing a lot of snooping on the menus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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