LaunchBox Ambient Music Player

[JoeViking245]

LaunchBox Ambient Music Player

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Listen to your favorite Arcade music playlist while admiring your LaunchBox collection.
Requires LaunchBox 13.3 or newer

Just add your own playlists and start listening when LaunchBox starts.  The music will pause when launching a game, and then resumes after exiting the game.

Setup:
Download and extract the contents of the zipped file into /LaunchBox/Plugins/

Quick Start:
With LaunchBox closed
    Copy a music playlist (i.e. MyPlaylist.m3u) into the Playlists subfolder
        i.e. /LaunchBox/Plugins/LBambient/Playlists/MyPlaylist.m3u
    Start LaunchBox

See Playlists below for playlist requirements.

About this plugin:
Place your music playlist(s) into /LBambient/Playlists/
    When you start LaunchBox, a random (if there're more than 1) playlist from that folder will be selected and start playing

Songs in the playlists will be played in a random order and will not repeat.

Songs will Pause when launching a game and then Resume when the game has exited.
    Fixed v1.2.0 Exception: It might not stay paused when launching Steam games and others using a launcher.

Once the player has gone through the entire playlist, that's it. No more music.
    So, if you plan to spend a lot of time looking at LaunchBox and not playing games, be sure to have a long playlist.

Options:
Go to Tools - LB Ambient Music

Adjust the player's volume slider (which is independent of LaunchBox's volume control) to your desired volume.
    Click Save Volume to save it in Settings for next time you start LaunchBox.

To manually select a specific playlist (or song) to load when LaunchBox starts
    Click Load to select a playlist (or song) and start playing it.
    The selection will be saved in Settings.
    Next time you start LaunchBox (and every time thereafter), the saved selection will be played.

To remove a playlist (or song) from Settings, click Clear Selection.
    This immediately stops the player and removes it from Settings.
    Next time you start LaunchBox, a random playlist (if any exists) will be selected from /LBambient/Playlists/ and automatically start playing.

Click Hide to close window.

Playlists:
Required: Playlists MUST have absolute paths to the song(s).
    Some players (i.e. VLC) will save the playlists using relative paths if it's saved within the players folder structure.

(new v1.1.0) Playlists can have absolute or relative paths to the songs.  Relative paths MUST be relative to the Playlists subfolder

Playlist formats tested are  .m3u, .m3u8 and .xspf
No other formats have been tested and will not work with this plugin.
If you have playlists saved in a different format that you'd prefer to use, let me know.

THIS HAS ONLY BEEN TESTED WITH LOCAL FILES.
If the files paths in the playlists are URL's (i.e. start with "http://"), things might break.  
    You can try it if you want. Let me know what you find.

As always, all comments and suggestions are graciously accepted and encouraged. 😎

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• Submitter
  JoeViking245
• Submitted
  07/03/2024
• Category
  Third-party Apps and Plugins

 

[RegularRegs]

This is great. I had the old arcadeambience app but this is so much more convenient. Just made a playlist of the arcadeambience mp3 tracks and now when I open launchbox i get the full effect.