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Dietrich · Mar 29th, 2006, 9:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sane

import pygame

pygame.mixer.init()

# play a 'wav' file
sound = pygame.mixer.Sound("my_sound.wav")
sound.play()

# play an 'mp3' file
pygame.mixer.music.load("my_sound.mp3")
pygame.mixer.music.play()

I'm not exactly sure about the mp3 one, because that's what my memory leaves me after 6 months. If it's not that, it'll be something very similar.

The advantages with the 'wav' method is you can preload sound objects and play when required. You can also play upon multiple tracks. mixer.music's only advantage is compatibility with all standard files (midi/mp3...) but you can't create objects or pre-load and/or play multiple sound files.

Thanks Sane,
on the mp3 file ( I put one in I had) I get the following error message:
pygame.error: Module format not recognized

Dietrich · Mar 29th, 2006, 10:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arevos

Google PyMedia.

Did that and installed PyMedia, note that I use Windows XP (all I have!).
However:

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# PyMedia wave play (from the tut examples)
# download: pymedia-1.3.5.0-pre2.win32-py2.4.exe
# free from: http://pymedia.org/
# works not well!!!! just noise!!!!

import pymedia.audio.sound as sound
import time, wave

def playWAV( fname ):
    f = wave.open( fname, 'rb' )
    sampleRate = f.getframerate()
    channels = f.getnchannels()
    format = sound.AFMT_S16_LE
    print sampleRate, channels, format  # test => 8000 1 16
    snd1 = sound.Output( sampleRate, channels, format )
    s = ' '
    while len(s):
        s = f.readframes( 1000 )
        snd1.play( s )

    # sound module is not synchronous, want everything to be played before exit
    while snd1.isPlaying(): time.sleep( 0.05 )


if __name__== '__main__':
    waveFile = 'boing.wav'  # put in a wave file you have
    playWAV(waveFile)

Arevos · Mar 30th, 2006, 12:41 AM

It might be possible that the reason PyGame doesn't play MP3s natively is due to the same licensing issues that plague Linux. Maybe you just need the right libraries, or perhaps an Ogg will work better.

Regardless, I'll look into it when I get back from work, as I'd like to know as well.

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Mar 30th, 2006, 12:41 AM	#13
Arevos Programming Guru Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: England Posts: 1,499 Rep Power: 5	It might be possible that the reason PyGame doesn't play MP3s natively is due to the same licensing issues that plague Linux. Maybe you just need the right libraries, or perhaps an Ogg will work better. Regardless, I'll look into it when I get back from work, as I'd like to know as well.

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