Scarecrow_Jack Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 Hi everyone, I'm terrible with forums, so I'll apologize in advance for any stupidity on my part. I'm using the City Hunter 2 theme on BigBox and have for a while. I tried making a new sound pack with Mortal Kombat 1 sounds and it wouldn't let BigBox open so I had to revert to an older version to fix it. Since then I've lost sound when attract mode leaves the first game (1945) on my list. I've unfortunately changed a bunch of settings trying to fix it, so I'm not sure if I've clicked something I shouldn't have. Audio works again when I navigate to a new game, but goes away as soon as attract mode takes over after 30 seconds. I've looked for the same issue in the forums, and all I can find is people looking to create this issue instead of fixing it. As a side note, any ideas on why the sound pack didn't work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 Look for an "Attract Mode Volume" setting in Big Box. It's either in the Sound section or the Attract Mode section. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 Don't really have any idea why your sound pack wouldn't work. I'd have to see the pack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow_Jack Posted February 1, 2022 Author Share Posted February 1, 2022 I appreciate the response. Everything in my sound and attract mode has volume of at least 20, there still isn't anything playing unless I scroll to the game, or the initial start up game. The sound pack was made by renaming mp3 files. Example; "mk1-00163.mp3" to "Startup.wav". They still play if I double click the file after renaming, so I assume they're functioning wav files now. I looked at other sound packs and tried to follow their lead, but when I tried to apply my pack and restart Big Box it never loaded, forcing me to revert to a previous state. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 40 minutes ago, Scarecrow_Jack said: I appreciate the response. Everything in my sound and attract mode has volume of at least 20, there still isn't anything playing unless I scroll to the game, or the initial start up game. The sound pack was made by renaming mp3 files. Example; "mk1-00163.mp3" to "Startup.wav". They still play if I double click the file after renaming, so I assume they're functioning wav files now. I looked at other sound packs and tried to follow their lead, but when I tried to apply my pack and restart Big Box it never loaded, forcing me to revert to a previous state. Unfortunately renaming an mp3 to a wav file will just result in a broken wav file. Some apps will ignore this error, but some won't. We're using DirectX to play those files directly, which isn't going to work with mp3s. So that's why the sound pack is broken. You'll need to convert the mp3s to wavs properly. For what it's worth, renaming file extensions like that will often break things lol, so it's generally just not a good idea at all. There's also a setting to turn off navigation sounds while in attract mode, so assuming that you're referring to those navigation sounds, that's probably what's going on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow_Jack Posted February 1, 2022 Author Share Posted February 1, 2022 The navigation sounds are fine, it's the audio for the videos for each game that doesn't play. Thanks for the advice on the mp3/wav conversion, I'm going to see if that gives me better results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow_Jack Posted February 1, 2022 Author Share Posted February 1, 2022 Converting the mp3's worked perfectly, thank you! That's one problem out of the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSco Posted February 8, 2022 Share Posted February 8, 2022 I’m having this issue now with the newest version of launchbox. All audio settings are correct and all audio works until after the first game gets switched away from. Then no more sound until I hit a button to stop attract mode and then sound from videos play again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K4m3nR1d3r Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 Having the exact same issue as MrSco. All audio is fine in attract mode from categories to platforms to collections (if the theme uses them) and then games. Once the first game cycles in attract mode, video clip audio and interface audio (wheel spin) go silent. If I hit exit and back out or press play and select the game, all audio returns. Everything else is fine. Games launch when selected and in-game audio is present. Only by letting big box idle in attract mode does this issue appear. I am using the theme "Unified Refried" but this seems to occur regardless of the theme selected. Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faeran Posted February 10, 2022 Share Posted February 10, 2022 For anyone that has this issue, and has already made sure that under Options > Sound > Attract Mode Master Volume, you have that value set to something greater than 0%. Please send us your BigBoxSettings.xml file (Located in LaunchBox\Data). You can post it here or PM myself and @C-Beats. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSco Posted February 12, 2022 Share Posted February 12, 2022 On 2/10/2022 at 1:03 PM, faeran said: For anyone that has this issue, and has already made sure that under Options > Sound > Attract Mode Master Volume, you have that value set to something greater than 0%. Please send us your BigBoxSettings.xml file (Located in LaunchBox\Data). You can post it here or PM myself and @C-Beats. Thanks. That must be a new setting. Me likey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisl23 Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 On 2/10/2022 at 1:03 PM, faeran said: For anyone that has this issue, and has already made sure that under Options > Sound > Attract Mode Master Volume, you have that value set to something greater than 0%. Please send us your BigBoxSettings.xml file (Located in LaunchBox\Data). You can post it here or PM myself and @C-Beats. Ah thank you! Was having this same issue, did not realize this new feature had been added. Many thanks for the heads up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slickrickstyles Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 On 4/17/2022 at 9:39 AM, chrisl23 said: Ah thank you! Was having this same issue, did not realize this new feature had been added. Many thanks for the heads up! Came here for the same thing. I was starting to trip out since the audio returns once you interact with the cabinet. haha. Glad I find this post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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