> I think the answer that sticks out to me is that if these are musical
horn sounds, you might consider using pygame.mixer.music, which will stream
the sounds as needed.
A very good idea, and the route I originally took, but as far as I can tell
pygame.mixer.music doesn't support polyphony, and I occasionally need to
play multiple sounds at once.
On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 10:59 PM, Daniel Foerster <pydsig...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I think the answer that sticks out to me is that if these are musical horn
> sounds, you might consider using pygame.mixer.music, which will stream the
> sounds as needed. However, this won't work if you have other music playing
> or if you want multiple horns to be able to play at the same time.
>
> A second solution is to load the sounds in the background of the game,
> especially if you're going to launch on a menu where the sounds won't be
> needed. You can pre-populate a dictionary with dummy sounds and use a
> thread to go through and load each sound into the dictionary while the user
> interacts with the menu.
>
> SOUND_PATH_MAPPING = {'horn_funny': 'horn_funny.ogg', 'horn_sad':
> 'extra_sounds/horn_sad.wav'}
>
> SOUNDS = {name: None for name in SOUND_PATH_MAPPING}
>
> def load_sounds():
>
> for name, path in SOUND_PATH_MAPPING:
>
> SOUNDS[name] = pygame.mixer.Sound(path)
>
>
> def load_sounds_background():
>
> thread.start_new_thread(load_sounds, ())
>
>
> If there's a legitimate chance that the player might try to use the horn
> sounds before they've finished loading, just have the horn logic check for
> Nones before trying to play or have a dummy sound object with a play method
> that does nothing.
>
> A full example of how you might do this with a class:
> https://gist.github.com/pydsigner/231c0812f9f91050dd83c744d6d5dc4b
>
> On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 12:31 AM, Alec Bennett <wrybr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Sorry, I left out the line where I try to save the file:
>>
>> > pickle.dump( sound_obj, open( "sound.pickled", "wb" ) )
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 10:29 PM, Alec Bennett <wrybr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm building a musical horn for my car with PyGame, and it works
>>> perfectly, but since it needs to load each of the 20 sounds on startup it
>>> takes about 30 seconds to load. I'm running it on a Raspberry Pi, which
>>> doesn't help of course.
>>>
>>> I thought I'd simply save the Sound objects as pickle objects, but that
>>> produces an error:
>>>
>>> > sound_obj = pygame.mixer.Sound("whatever.wav")
>>>
>>> > can't pickle Sound objects
>>>
>>> I also tried the dill module (https://github.com/uqfoundation/dill) but
>>> with similar results:
>>>
>>> > sound_obj = pygame.mixer.Sound("whatever.wav")
>>>
>>> > Can't pickle <type 'Sound'>: it's not found as __builtin__.Sound
>>>
>>> I don't imagine can think of some clever way to save the preloaded
>>> Sounds, or otherwise speed up the load times?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
