Background Music & Browser Sounds Not Working On Opera GX

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @ultragaming1001 last edited by

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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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[Leakphorn]

Leakphorn @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?

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by burnout426

I don't know what I was doing wrong before, but I'm finally able to reproduce the bug. It has nothing to do with any of the extensions or Opera's adblocker.

Here's my directions for reproducing:

Start Opera GX with a fresh profile (just for good measure with testing, not really necessary).

Click the Easy-setup button on the address bar, scroll down and enable background music.

Once the background music starts playing, hit ctrl + shift + n to open a private window.

In the private window, disable the background music via the Easy-setup button.

Then, click the X for the private window to close the private window.

In the normal window, click the Easy-setup button and turn on background music again.

Result: Background music doesn't play. You have to disable background music and enable it again for the background music to actually start playing again.

Also, repeat everything, but this time, after closing the private window, open a new non-private window and compare its Easy-setup page to the first non-private window. You will see that in the new non-private window, the Easy-setup page shows that background music is still enabled even though it's not. In the first non-private window (that you started with when Opera started), the Easy-setup page shows that background music isn't enabled.

In short, Opera is messing up the on/off state and its syncing of that state to the Easy-setup disabled/enabled switch for background music in other windows. Everything syncs fine between multiple non-private windows. It's just private -> non-private.

Filed Bug DNA-102702 for this.

[ultragaming1001]

ultragaming1001 @burnout426 last edited by leocg

@burnout426 Problem is that even when I turn it off and turn it back on, the Background Music doesn't start again.

Edit: Also I disabled (muted) Background Music via the Sidebar Visualizer Icon. After some time that it is muted, I just close the whole Private Browsing window.

[ultragaming1001]

ultragaming1001 @burnout426 last edited by ultragaming1001

@burnout426 Okay for some stupid reason, I started up Opera GX, and somehow the Background Music was working.
I closed Opera GX and started it up again, and the Background Music just stopped working.

I did the weird things of starting up Private Browsing and disabling the Background Music (and Browser Sounds) from Easy Setup. and then closing the Private Browsing window. The normal window still had the options on, and the Sidebar Visualizer Icon showed a static image (I have Dynamic Audio Visualizer on). After turning off both options from Easy Setup and turning them on again, both of them didn't work (as usual). Usually the Sidebar Visualizer Icon just shows an empty box, to indicate that no audio is playing.

Another thing, I downloaded the Opera GX Installer again for a standalone installation. Thing is... there's no standalone installation option. When I went to "Install for:", it's just a greyed-out box with my device username written there.
So maybe there's no such standalone installation for Opera GX?

EDIT: Nevermind, I just deleted a folder named Opera GX Installer (from the time I downloaded Opera GX Installer again) or something like that. So maybe the conclusion is: Delete some related (and unwanted) files (like Opera GX Installers) and the problem will fix itself? I think this is tedious, as the searching for files in File Explorer takes a long time.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @ultragaming1001 last edited by

@ultragaming1001 said in Background Music & Browser Sounds Not Working On Opera GX:

there's no standalone installation option.

When you start the installer, the installer is going to use the last install location so that the installer is set to upgrade the existing install by default. So, for an upgrade, some options are going to be grayed out. What you need to do is change the "install path" to somewhere else (like a folder on your desktop named "Opera GX Test"). Then, the other options like "install for" will be available to change.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @ultragaming1001 last edited by burnout426

@ultragaming1001 said in Background Music & Browser Sounds Not Working On Opera GX:

Okay for some stupid reason, I started up Opera GX, and somehow the Background Music was working.
I closed Opera GX and started it up again, and the Background Music just stopped working.
I did the weird things of starting up Private Browsing and disabling the Background Music (and Browser Sounds) from Easy Setup. and then closing the Private Browsing window. The normal window still had the options on, and the Sidebar Visualizer Icon showed a static image (I have Dynamic Audio Visualizer on). After turning off both options from Easy Setup and turning them on again, both of them didn't work (as usual). Usually the Sidebar Visualizer Icon just shows an empty box, to indicate that no audio is playing.

Definitely weird. I suspect it's related to the same general issue of the preference and state getting out of sync or something like that. There's a link to this in the bug so the devs can looks through these posts.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @Leakphorn last edited by

@leakphorn said in Background Music & Browser Sounds Not Working On Opera GX:

Maybe it is an Opera GX-exclusive feature?

Yes.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @ultragaming1001 last edited by

@ultragaming1001 said in Background Music & Browser Sounds Not Working On Opera GX:

closed Opera GX and started it up again, and the Background Music just stopped working.

If background music won't play at all no matter what (even in a regular window and without doing any private window tricks), and you think the background music enabled/disable setting is messed up in your preferences file, you can fix the setting to see if it helps.

Goto the URL opera://about, take note of the "profile" path, close Opera, and open the "Preferences" file in the profile folder in JSONedit in tree mode. Under root/gx, there will be a play_background_music boolean set to true or false. Or, if play_background_music isn't there, it means it's at the default of false.

Anyway, you can right-click the play_background_music node, choose "Delete selected node", and save your changes to restore the setting back to default (of false). Then, you can start Opera and enable background music again and the music should play again hopefully. This won't solve the state out-of-sync issue though.

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ultragaming1001 @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 Okay will try.

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ultragaming1001 @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 IDK what in the world you just said but I will try if the problem re-occurs.

[Proxity]

Proxity @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 It worked somehow, i didn't find the play_background_music.
closed JSONedit and then reopened opera and sounds started working