Question

I’ve been having problems trying to load and play sounds in pygame. Most people seem to have trouble with MP3s but for some reason, I can’t even get wavs to play.

>>> f=open('menuscreen.wav',"rb")
>>> pygame.mixer.init()
>>> pygame.mixer.music.load(f)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <fragment>
pygame.error: Module format not recognized

and neither does this work:

>>> k = pygame.mixer.Sound('menuscreen.wav')
>>> pygame.mixer.init()
>>> pygame.mixer.music.load(k)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <fragment>
pygame.error: Couldn't read from RWops

and neither does this:

>>> import pygame
>>> pygame.mixer.init()
>>> pygame.mixer.music.load('menuscreen.wav')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <fragment>
pygame.error: Unable to load WAV file

I’m using 2.7.2 and pygame 1.9.1

Answer 1

You should load the file by passing the file name as first argument. This works on my system (same python and pygame versions) just fine:

>>> import pygame
>>> pygame.mixer.init()
>>> pygame.mixer.music.load('filename.wav')
>>> pygame.mixer.music.play()

HTH!