Alas, that is precisely what I did:
def clipEffect( effect, startTime ):
raw = effect.get_raw()
rawStart = int( len(raw) * startTime / effect.get_length() )
return mixer.Sound( raw[rawStart:] )
Depending on what sound effect I play the code either:
- Works fine!
- Horribly distorts the audio, though the original Sound plays fine...
Hi Jasper. Try the fourth answer here
> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57960451/how-can-i-play-a-portion-of-an-audio-file-in-a-loop-in-pygame>,
> by Ted Klein Bergman.
> On 7/13/2021 4:24 PM, Jasper Phillips wrote:
>
> I'm working on a networked action game with rollback netcode, and so I
> need to play sound effects starting an arbitrary amount of time from the
> beginning of the file so they sync up with game events.
>
> pygame.mixer.music does this via set_pos()... but apparently there's no
> corresponding method when playing effects directly via a Channel.
> Unfortunate, as I need to use Channels!
>
> The best I've come up with is to use Sound.get_raw(), trim the starting
> bytes off then, create a new Sound. But this fails several different ways,
> I'm guessing because I'm arbitrarily slicing the bytes and there's some
> format details I don't know.
>
>
> Does anyone have any tips for hacking raw Sound data, or perhaps some
> better approach?
>
> -Jasper
>
>
