mute during attract mode not working

[societyab]

I just updated to 3.95 and the mute during attract mode no longer works, everything else works great and faster than before. But I really like it being silent until I go touch a button. (well really the wife is the one who likes it the most, lol.) Is anyone else having this problem?

[Tom Speirs]

Please provide more detail, plus log file and PinballX.ini. I assume you are talking about table audio?

[societyab]

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[societyab]

I use table audio not video audio, it used to mute after starting attract mode, then unmute once I pressed a button.

[societyab]

16:43:05.9  11/9/2019:  PinballX - Version 3.95 x64
16:43:05.1  11/9/2019:  Windows 7
16:43:05.1  11/9/2019:  Loading Settings
16:43:05.1  11/9/2019:  Initialize Component
16:43:06.0  11/9/2019:  Initialize Display
16:43:06.2  11/9/2019:  Testing Flash engine.
16:43:07.3  11/9/2019:  Loading PlugIns
16:43:07.4  11/9/2019:  Created DirectX BackGlass Window
16:43:07.4  11/9/2019:  Looking for startup images
16:43:07.4  11/9/2019:  Hiding Cursor
16:43:07.4  11/9/2019:  Hiding Taskbar
16:43:07.4  11/9/2019:  Getting GPU and CPU Information
16:43:07.4  11/9/2019:  CPU:  Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2400 CPU @ 3.10GHz
16:43:07.4  11/9/2019:  4 cores, 4 threads
16:43:07.4  11/9/2019:  GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750
16:43:07.4  11/9/2019:  Displays: 2
16:43:07.4  11/9/2019:  Loading Font
16:43:07.4  11/9/2019:  Load Game List
16:43:07.6  11/9/2019:  Loading Database: Pinball FX2
16:43:07.6  11/9/2019:  Loading Database: Pinball FX3
16:43:07.6  11/9/2019:  Loading Database: Pinball Arcade
16:43:07.6  11/9/2019:  Loading Database: Future Pinball
16:43:07.7  11/9/2019:  Loading Database: FX3low
16:43:07.7  11/9/2019:  Loading Database: FX3med
16:43:07.7  11/9/2019:  Loading Custom Database: Pinball FX2_old
16:43:07.7  11/9/2019:  Initial load gamelist took: 125ms
16:43:07.8  11/9/2019:  Finding and matching artwork and videos
16:43:08.7  11/9/2019:  Took: 889ms
16:43:08.7  11/9/2019:  Loading Game Statistics and Scores
16:43:08.8  11/9/2019:  Main display running full screen windowed.
16:43:08.8  11/9/2019:  Loading Surfaces
16:43:08.9  11/9/2019:  Finished Loading Surfaces
16:43:08.9  11/9/2019:  Initialize Audio
16:43:08.9  11/9/2019:  Set Keyboard Controls
16:43:08.9  11/9/2019:  Initialize Joystick
16:43:09.0  11/9/2019:  1 Joystick Attached
16:43:09.0  11/9/2019:  Started
16:47:30.5  11/9/2019:  Exiting
16:47:30.6  11/9/2019:  Showing Taskbar
16:47:30.8  11/9/2019:  Unhiding Mouse Cursor
16:47:30.8  11/9/2019:  Disposing Plugins
16:47:30.8  11/9/2019:  Saving Settings
16:47:30.8  11/9/2019:  Bye
 

[Tom Speirs]

I may have made a little mistake but it is working in 3.96 for me. Please confirm, also in future please attach files rather than copy and paste and also post in the correct forum. I offer serveral products and services.

Thanks.

[societyab]

Ok, sorry won't happen again.

Can I just install over the 3.95 install

[societyab]

I installed, and rebooted and problem is still there. I checked the pinballx.ini and went into settings to double check and it's set to MuteAudio=True

 

[societyab]

I did a fresh install and installed over 3.95 with the same results. doesn't mute during attract mode.

[Tom Speirs]

Its working for me. Did anything else change?

[societyab]

No just installed 3.95 over my old install, which broke it. then I fresh installed it to new folder and moved media and databases over to new install. then updated it to the new 3.96. I've tried 3rd party apps that mute after a certain idle time but, the ones I've tried don't recognize joystick input. I'm lost what did you update. I think the last version I had was 2.9x something, has there been dependency changes or folder names or anything? I really would like to keep this updated version because of the video loading and table with gif loading, performance updates and such.

[Tom Speirs]

Perhaps you can try a previous version to rule anything else out?

You definitely tried 3.97?

[societyab]

I just tried 3.97, same thing. Yeah I'll try an earlier version.

[societyab]

Sorry to bother, I can't seem to find the archive for PinballX past versions for download.

[scutters]

On the PinballX download page, click the changelog drop down, select a different version and then there should be a download option for that version underneath.

I'll check if the mute still works for me later on with v3.97

[societyab]

I just installed PinballX 2.42,  and the mute during attract mode is working again.

I'll try seeing what the latest version that works for me is.... 

[scutters]

Mute audio in attract mode works for me in v3.97.

I'm also using table audio files. Strange.

[societyab]

6 hours ago, scutters said:

Mute audio in attract mode works for me in v3.97.

I'm also using table audio files. Strange.

are you using windows 7 or 10

[societyab]

well I'm finding out I have to wait 24 hours between each download of pinballx, which is fine I understand the pay wall, It will just take a while.

In the mean time I wrote an AutoHotkey script to mute all audio on 5 mins Idle, but the problem is ahk doesn't detect joystick input, but it does let you map joy buttons to keyboard. So in order for it to work I have all my buttons sending the letter k all the time just to properly detect idle.

or If anyone has better ahk know how, I think there is a way to use the getkeystate function, but I've failed to figure it out.

It would be great to get this working as a 3rd party app, because Pinballx is the only frontend I know of that uses the Mute during Attract mode feature. (Well I assume Gameex Does but honestly have never used it. I currently use Launchbox/Bigbox for my arcade setup.)

I have found three apps that mute during idle:

IdleMute -  Made using Autohotkey

Tur-Another Idle Volume Adjuster - Has lots of features

System Silencer - very simple just option to set idle time

All of these programs do not detect Pinscape input or Joystick input

[scutters]

2 hours ago, societyab said:

are you using windows 7 or 10

Win 10, it might be a platform thing. Don't have win 7 to test on though,

[Tom Speirs]

5 hours ago, societyab said:

well I'm finding out I have to wait 24 hours between each download of pinballx, which is fine I understand the pay wall, It will just take a while.

 

Life is that hard for you or are you not getting good use from the product!?

[societyab]

unfortunately yes life is that hard right now, I currently live in mexico and the average weekly pay is 35 dollars. Trust me if I could afford anything right now I would gladly give support. Just as of now I can't. Once my CNC business gets off the ground I'll be sure to Donate.

Sorry if I came off sounding like a leech.

If I could I would.

[Tom Speirs]

No worries. If you can prove that to me I will give you a free upgrade,

Cheers.

Tom.

[societyab]

I don't know how to prove it but, here are some pics I just took.

The CNC I almost have done, My wife on the roof doing laundry at night for some odd reason, and a pic of my street from my roof.

[societyab]

on 3.97 when I launch fx3 or tpa it plays the table audio when the table is brought up which at first sounded like it opened the program twice but I checked and only one instance. it would stop after playing through the table audio file once. And the video image/loading doesn't work for future pinball.

there are none of these problems on 2.42