Black screen when leaving a game when custom BG music is setup

[Elendil]

Hello,

I have recalbox with the last ES version "EmulationStation - v 6.1.1-Dragonblaze, built Nov 13 2019 - 14:04:39" with a pi3B
When I put my custom OGG audio file in \recalbox\share\music, it works correctly (when I start the raspberry, the music is played).
If I start a game and then I leave the game, I get a black screen
I have to either restart the raspberry or Click on "Restart ES" in Recalbox Manager.
If I remove all audio files from \recalbox\share\music, I don't have this issue.

Is it a known bug or did I miss something ?

Thanks.

[Elendil]

I fixed the issue by converting the OGG files.
Even if they worked in BG, because they were not in 44.1Hz rate, it makes ES crash after leaving a game.
After converting all OGG into 44.1Hz, no more crash.

Hope that helps if you had the same issue.

Note: thanks to "myst" from the french section for helping !

[Lumpy]

This is very interesting to me as I was getting crashes when exiting games too, but was unable to get any help here which resulted in me having to quit using Recalbox sadly. I notice that in my .ogg collection on my install that I have four files with a higher sample rate than 44.1Hz. I will redo these and see if it gets the system stable again.

Thanks for posting your advice. I will post back if this works.

[Lumpy]

Well, just spent over an hour testing with the changes made to my background music, and yes it would seem that this fixes it! To say I am extremely pleased would be an understatement. I'm absolutely thrilled!

Thank you for posting the solution. I cannot wait to get back to Recalbox.

[acris]

Place your ogg files here to replace default bg music in emulationstation.
The files must have a sampling rate of 44100Hz and shouldn't have a higher bit rate than 256 kb/s.

Source : https://gitlab.com/recalbox/recalbox/blob/master/board/recalbox/fsoverlay/recalbox/share_init/music/readme.txt

[Lumpy]

@acris Yes I appreciate it is highlighted but it is an easy mistake to make and one that can have unexpected results. It turns out that for me that the last 4 files I'd added were the problem. I didn't even notice their sample rate. Easy mistake like I say but worth letting others know.