Background Music & Browser Sounds Not Working On Opera GX
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ultragaming1001 last edited by
OS: Windows 8.1
Version: LVL 4 (core: 91.0.4516.36)So, sometimes, my background music just stops working, and when that happens, so do my browser sounds. I don't really know how it happens, but I think it might be something to do with the background music being off for too long.
Steps to (try to) reproduce the issue:
Turn off background music for 5 minutes or-so.How to fix the issue (temporarily):
Press Alt (or click the icon in the top-left) and click Update & Recovery...
Go to Recovery and click Recover... and then click Reset my data and Opera settings. -
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
Do the sounds work and stay working in a test standalone installation?
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ultragaming1001 last edited by
@burnout426 I don't know what you mean but I just deleted some random files (Opera GX Installers) and it works pretty well now. Will update if the problem re-occurs.
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ultragaming1001 last edited by
It seems that the problem has occurred again. I'm pretty sure it is not one of my extensions. I have tried turning off my ad-blockers, anti-blockers and all my extensions, restarted Opera GX, and the problem still persisted. However, it seems that once I open up Private Browsing, the Background Music suddenly starts up, so do the Browser Sounds. When I close Private Browsing the Background Music suddenly stops, so do the Browser Sounds.
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ultragaming1001 last edited by
@burnout426 How interesting, there doesn't seem to be a Background Music OR Browser Sounds in the Opera that I've downloaded. Maybe it is an Opera GX-exclusive feature?
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ultragaming1001 last edited by
@burnout426 It started working again after I deleted some random unwanted files (one of the folders was termed Opera Installer).
sigh Some files sure are stored in weird, hidden places that I've never seen. -
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ultragaming1001 last edited by
It seems that the problem occurs (I think) when I close a Private Browsing tab while Background Music is muted. I'm not sure if this is the exact case, but I'm speculating that this is the case.
With this information in mind, maybe you can deduct where the problem is sourced from?
Just for extra information here are all the extensions I have enabled:
Awesome Screenshot and Screen Recorder (allow in incognito)
BTRoblox - Making Roblox Better (both permissions off)
GoFullPage - Full Page Screen Capture (allow in incognito)
Google Translate (allow in incognito)
Opera Ad Blocker
Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader (allow in incognito)
SaveFrom.net helper (allow in incognito)
Scribe — Documentation, SOPs & Screenshots (allow in incognito)
Search by Image (both permissions on)
Speedtest by Ookla (allow in incognito) -
ultragaming1001 last edited by leocg
@dredgenneo How to fix the issue (temporarily):
Press Alt (or click the icon in the top-left) and click Update & Recovery...
Go to Recovery and click Recover... and then click Reset my data and Opera settings.This is risky because you will have to bring back Everything from logins to extensions to site data, everything. So I recommend you Do Not at All Costs, take this temporary solution.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@ultragaming1001 said in Background Music & Browser Sounds Not Working On Opera GX:
It seems that the problem occurs (I think) when I close a Private Browsing tab while Background Music is muted.
You mean closing the whole private window or just a tab in the private window?
Is a regular window open at the same time too?
How are you muting the background music? Via the sidebar visualizer icon? Or, are you disabling it via the Easy-Setup button on the address bar?
Muting/disabling the background music in a private window should cause the same to happen in a normal window and vice versa. I'm not sure how doing the muting/disabling in a private window could be the cause, but anything is possible.
Do you start up Opera is private mode?
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ultragaming1001 last edited by
- The whole private window
- Yes.
- Sidebar Visualizer Icon
- Yes I know that but maybe it's because I'm closing a window with Background Music off.
- No not really. Also there's no option to open Opera GX starting with Private Browsing Window (I think?) so basically no.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@ultragaming1001 said in Background Music & Browser Sounds Not Working On Opera GX:
Yes I know that but maybe it's because I'm closing a window with Background Music off.
Maybe. I can't reproduce the issue myself.
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ultragaming1001 last edited by
@burnout426 Maybe you can with the given extensions?
Awesome Screenshot and Screen Recorder (allow in incognito)
BTRoblox - Making Roblox Better (both permissions off)
GoFullPage - Full Page Screen Capture (allow in incognito)
Google Translate (allow in incognito)
Opera Ad Blocker
Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader (allow in incognito)
SaveFrom.net helper (allow in incognito)
Scribe — Documentation, SOPs & Screenshots (allow in incognito)
Search by Image (both permissions on)
Speedtest by Ookla (allow in incognito) -
burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@ultragaming1001 If you provide links to each in the Chrome webstore or Opera's addons site (depending where you got each extension), I can test them out.
You can also disable your extensions one by one to see if the problem goes away when you disable one.
You can also try in a test standalone installation and install your list of extensions one by one and test till you get the problem to see which one (if any) is causing the issue. This way is kind of a good way to test too as it rules out an extension being installed but disabled causing a problem for some reason.
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ultragaming1001 last edited by ultragaming1001
@burnout426 I have installed most of them from the Opera Add-Ons Website and for the ones that weren't in that website, I downloaded from Chrome Webstore.
I don't really know the specifications of from where I installed it.I have tried that before but I'm not sure if I'm supposed to relaunch Opera GX after disabling an extension or not. If it is not needed then yeah, I have tried that and I didn't notice any difference.
Isn't Browser Sounds and Background Music exclusive to Opera GX? I don't think I will be able to see the problem in a standalone installation.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@ultragaming1001 said in Background Music & Browser Sounds Not Working On Opera GX:
elaunch Opera GX after disabling an extension or not.
I would just for good measure.
standalone installation.
The Opera GX installer has a standalone installation option just like the regular Opera installer.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@ultragaming1001 said in Background Music & Browser Sounds Not Working On Opera GX:
I don't really know the specifications of from where I installed it.
I'll try to look when I get a chance.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@ultragaming1001 Okay, I have these links:
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Opera's built-in Adblocker.
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SaveFrom.net helper - From addons.opera.com, From Chrome webstore
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Search by Image - from addons.opera.com, From Chrome webstore.
