Hello Pygame developers: Please read entire message before assuming you've heard this before:)
I am a new user of Pygame. I have the book "Beginning Game Dev with Python and Pygame". So far I am very impressed with Pygame; It has excellent graphics response and input capabilities. The sound Mixer library has problems though. When I tried the examples in Chapter 10 "Making Things Go Boom", I noticed a "Crackling" noise when playing sound effects (short wav files) and music (long Ogg files). I have searched the archives at Seul.org and searched on Google for fixes to this problem. The solutions suggested basically amount to changing arguments passed into: pygame.mixer.pre_init(...) I tried many different settings: pygame.mixer.pre_init(44100, -16, 2, 4096) pygame.mixer.pre_init(22050, -16, 2, 4096) pygame.mixer.pre_init(22050, 16, 2, 1024 * some_number) Too many to keep listing. I also tried leaving the settings at default, which actually produces the least amount to crackling. I played the music/sound files with Windows Media Player to rule out my system or bad files. There was no crackling there. On some of the Google searches, I saw that people were pointing to the problem being in the actual SDL_Mixer. So I downloaded SDL/SDL_Mixer extension and re-wrote the example scripts in SDL/C++, using the same music/sound files. To my surprise, there was NO Crackling noise. So, the problem is NOT my system, it's not the arguments I'm passing into pygame.mixer, and it's not SDL_Mixer. The problem has to be somewhere in the Pygame Sound/Music libraries. I even tried swapping out the SDL_Mixer libs that came with Pygame for the ones that came with SDL_Mixer, and still got the crackling in Pygame. It would be nice if this could be fixed. Because the crackling is essentially making the library unuseable. Which would be a shame, because Pygame is a terrific library/tool. Thanks, Ethan D. Systems Programmer, SR. Planetary Lab, Univ Arizona My System: Windows Vista 32bit home premium IP35-Pro mobo, integrated sound, latest drivers 4 Gig RAM Intel Quad core
