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It's already there (if you mean listening to music while "selecting" video as you wrote in the body)
Play music, press backspace, browse through library, music keeps playing in the background until you play something else (ie. movie)
If you mean listening to music while "watching" video as you wrote in the title, then no, and I don't see the point either
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I agree, this feature would we awesome. Would be nice to play music while watching a game or music while watching any show your not interested in hearing.
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You'll get the best idea about what I'm after by visiting comfytube.com. It's very self explanatory, you don't need to do anything except go to the page and you'll get what it's about.
Basically what I'm after doing is being able to listen to any song in my library and have it accompanied by an audible and visual lit fireplace as well as the sound of rain.
It's a very relaxing way of listening to certain types of music when sat at the PC and I'd love for the functionality to be replicated in XBMC either via a plugin or as a built in feature.
What do you think?
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LOL, this is so cheesy, but I kind of like it.
Either way, this isn't so much an XBMC feature, but a plugin--and honestly, you may be able to just hack this into existence using an external player to play either the video of the fire+rain sound, and XBMC playing the song from your library, or vice versa.
Another idea that might work is seeing if you can easily somehow just turn a video into a visualization, but I don't know if that is possible, or how you would add the sound of the fire and the rain.
This MIGHT be a little hard to find support for, so you may wanna look into the external player idea.
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make the fireplace video a gif animation then you can play music while watching it, as for actually supporting video + music I must say its a really unnecessary feature. Its a feature that would basically alter the entire player handling in xbmc also.
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Resurrecting an old thread - seems as though there is some demand for this feature. backlist's idea (custom audio track) seems feasible at first glance as sync wouldn't be an issue, though I too am a coding ignoramus!
Would there be any way to implement such an idea, via an addon if ness?
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Someone figured out a way to do this by using the karaoke feature. I don't have a link off-hand, but last winter we had fireplaces with music :)
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Ok, not sure if anybody has found a solution to this but the one I use, (i'm on Linux btw) is to create a bash script using mplayer to play my playlist. I use another bash script to use mplayer to play my video, I have a hour long log fire video, and a 3rd bash script that runs both of the first scripts to run simultaneously. I then use advanced launcher to run that script. This works for me but the downside is I can't control the playlist. I'm sure this can be done with a pipe from mplayer. Hope this helps.
P.S i'm not a programmer or scripter but have managed to get this working
