Make music continue from splashscreen

[Tess]

I have music that I start playing on the splashscreen and I want to keep playing through the main menu. Unfortunately, all music stops when the main menu comes up.

I have

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define config.main_menu_stop_channels = ["sound","voice"]

in my options.rpy file to make sure the music channel isn't stopped, and I've experimented with both setting define.main_menu_music to None and not having that line there at all.

I assume this is some sort of auto-magic thing happening in the background of Ren'Py, I'm just not sure how to turn it off.

[Donmai]

You only need to define the main menu music as usual, then start playing the same music in your splash screen. When it reaches the main menu, the music player will notice it is the same music to play and will continue without interruption. I've been making this for years in my projects.

[Tess]

Awesome, that's good to know! Thank you so much!

The next step: the song has an intro that doesn't loop, then a main part that plays on loop after its done. It's easy to set up in the queue when I'm handling it myself, but Ren'Py's automagic code keeps either playing the intro on infinite loop or interrupting the intro with the main body file depending on which one I set config.main_menu_music to.

Is there a way to simply turn off the main menu music feature so I can code it custom?

[jeffster]

Yes, IIRC Main Menu stops "music" channel unless the current track is set in config.

You can define a channel with a different name - not "music" - and play your queue there.

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