I could be wrong, but it seems to me like the program is just exiting before
the sound has a chance to play in full. Try adding a wait at the end (e.g.
pygame.time.wait(2000)).
--- On Wed, 3/7/12, Danny Campbell <danny.campb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Danny Campbell <danny.campb...@gmail.com>
> Subject: [pygame] Strange mixer problem
> To: pygame-users@seul.org
> Date: Wednesday, March 7, 2012, 9:56 PM
>
> I am running this on Ubuntu Natty, and I've had this problem
> on a separate
>
> occasion on a different Natty machine. Basically, in some
> circumstances, I
>
> can't play a sound with the following code:
>
>
>
> import pygame.mixer
>
>
>
> pygame.mixer.init()
>
> pygame.mixer.Sound("1up.wav").play()
>
>
>
> There will either be a click, or more often, no sound at
> all. There are no
>
> error messages. I have tried using pygame.mixer.get_init()
> to check if the
>
> mixer has been properly initialized (which it seems to have
> been). I've
>
> tried using pygame.mixer.pre_init() to specify certain
> settings (my sound
>
> files are 22050Hz and 1 channel). This didn't help, either.
>
>
>
> The strangest and most confusing thing is that it will run
> just fine in
>
> the Python interactive shell. If I load the Python shell and
> copy and paste
>
> this exact code into it, I get the expected sound.
>
>
>
> I can't for the life of me figure out what the difference
> would be between
>
> the command line and the interactive shell (I've double
> checked the version
>
> of the shell and the version I'm using from the command
> line, they are the
>
> same).
>
>
>
> I'm probably missing something very simple, but I've been
> pulling my hair
>
> out with this and am not sure how to proceed. :)
>
>
>
> Please let me know if I should send the sound file in
> question.
>
