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> I see that pygame.mixer.Sound supports OGG, I guess I should try that.
> I've never used OGG before, and I wonder if it supports OGG if MP3 would be
> an easy addition?
>
Well so much for using OGG (and probably MP3) to speed up preloading. With
my 13 minute mono soundfiles, it takes 7.3 seconds to preload the wav file
(44.1hz, 16 bit, mono) and 43.6 seconds to preload the OGG file... I have a
feeling it's uncompressing it during preload.
>
My project needs polyphony, but really only the ability to play two sounds
at once. I'm currently using this method because it supports that:
>
channel = 1 # or 2
> sound_obj = pygame.mixer.Sound("whatever.wav") # long preload at this step
> channel = pygame.mixer.Channel(channel)
> channel.play(sound_obj)
>
This method of playing MP3 works beautifully without preloading, but can
only play one sound at a time:
>
pygame.mixer.init()
> pygame.mixer.music.load("whatever.mp3")
> pygame.mixer.music.play()
> pygame.event.wait()
>
I don't imagine anyone knows of a way to play two sound files
simultaneously using pygame.mixer.music? Or some other solution in Python
under Linux that would do it reliably? I suppose I could slave two
instances of mplayer, but I'd of course prefer to not be forking out
processes.
If anyone's curious about the files I'm trying to load, I posted some test
files here:
sinkingsensation.com/dropbox/icecream.zip
On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 2:30 PM, Alec Bennett <wrybr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 7:59 AM, Christopher Night <cosmologi...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I recommend saving the sound as a raw buffer. First in a separate script:
>>
>> sound = pygame.mixer.Sound("music1.wav")
>> open("music1.buf", "wb").write(sound.get_raw())
>>
>> Then in your game:
>> sound = pygame.mixer.Sound(buffer=open("music1.buf", "rb").read())
>>
>> I found about 4x speedup of reading a large file on my desktop using this
>> method. That may or may not be enough for you, especially if you combine
>> with other tips in this thread.
>>
>
>
> Very interesting. Will try this when I'm working on this tonight.
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