Uninterrupted music after the game ends

[Ghastly Disco]

Hi everyone!

I'm making my first Renpy game, and I'm trying to have a single piece of music play uninterrupted from the start of the game until the user closes the program. So far I've managed to transition from main menu into the start of the game without the music starting over from the beginning. I've done this by using the queue statement to play the music both at the beginning of the main_menu label and the beginning of the start label.

However, at the end of the game when the user is returned to the main menu, the music starts over. I've tried to work around this by using jump main_menu at the end of my game script instead of return, but this takes me to the pause menu instead of the actual start-of-the-program menu.

How do I prevent the music from restarting at the end of the game?

[Imperf3kt]

You cannot, at least, not as I understand it.
When the game ends and the main menu is called, Ren'Py is basically restarting.

[Per K Grok]

Hi everyone!

I'm making my first Renpy game, and I'm trying to have a single piece of music play uninterrupted from the start of the game until the user closes the program. So far I've managed to transition from main menu into the start of the game without the music starting over from the beginning. I've done this by using the queue statement to play the music both at the beginning of the main_menu label and the beginning of the start label.

However, at the end of the game when the user is returned to the main menu, the music starts over. I've tried to work around this by using jump main_menu at the end of my game script instead of return, but this takes me to the pause menu instead of the actual start-of-the-program menu.

How do I prevent the music from restarting at the end of the game?

One thing you could consider is to have an end screen where the player gets the option to close the game without returning to the main menu or to return to the main menu.

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screen theEnd():
    text "GAME OVER" xpos 100 ypos 175
    textbutton "Quit" action Quit() xpos 100  ypos 200
    textbutton "Main menu" action MainMenu() xpos 100  ypos 220

The player that chose the Quit alternative will have the music playing from start to closing

[MaydohMaydoh]

You could try using renpy.music.get_playing to get something like something like

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define song = "song.ogg"

label main_menu:
	if song != renpy.music.get_playing():
		play music song
	##rest of code
		
label start:
	##do stuff
	return

Should stop the play statement from restarting the song upon entering the main menu
I think that should work, maybe?

[Ghastly Disco]

You could try using renpy.music.get_playing to get something like something like

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define song = "song.ogg"

label main_menu:
	if song != renpy.music.get_playing():
		play music song
	##rest of code
		
label start:
	##do stuff
	return

Should stop the play statement from restarting the song upon entering the main menu
I think that should work, maybe?

Thanks for the tip! I tried it but it didn't work for me.

I'll just accept this as a limitation of the engine.

[Saltome]

Ah Ren'py, this love-hate relationship can't go on like this. Wanted to prove Per K Grok wrong, unfortunately his evaluation is correct, this is a limitation of the engine. As far as I can tell Ren'py's version of pygame doesn't even have the normal mixer functionality.
There is however a way to go around and sneak up on renpy.

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init python:
    import subprocess
    import os
    def resource_path(relative_path):
        try:
            base_path = config.basedir
        except Exception:
            base_path = os.path.abspath(".")

        return os.path.join(base_path, relative_path)
    subprocess.Popen(resource_path("game\\sound_test.exe"))
label start:
    "start"
    "end"

http://www.mediafire.com/file/f731bi34u ... t.exe/file
It needs this file^
Create a new test project and paste this code, then copy the file to its game folder
Hint: q