On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 05:19:38 +0100, Pete Shinners <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 07:41 +0100, John Eriksson wrote:
Which music formats can pygame.mixer play?
I know there are some issues with MP3 on windows but how about Linux?
Any more formats than MP3 and OGG??
Pygame can load the sound formats that SDL_mixer supports. This includes
sampled data like WAV, VOC, AIFF, MP3, and OGG. There are also a lot of
tracker style formats like MOD, XM, XT, MIDI.
MP3 support is tricky because the SMPEG library doesn't compile well
with MSVC. It is also a bit unsupported and can't handle things like
id3v2 tags.
I've been looking at the various ways of playing different audio formats
(mp3, ogg, ...) on a Windows platform these last days, and it appears
pyMedia is the only package that provides this out of the box. The rest
are either not up-to-date (audiere only works with python 2.3 for
example), need extra compiling (not always an option), or work with
specific libraries (which sometimes aren't cross-platform).
