How can I play an audio file in the background using Python

Question

I'm just making a small game using pygame and I've been wanting to add some background music. Can someone guide me?

Answer 1

down voteacceptedFor windows:

you could use  winsound.SND_ASYNC to play them asynchronously

import winsound
winsound.PlaySound("filename", winsound.SND_ASYNC | winsound.SND_ALIAS )

To stop playing

winsound.PlaySound(None, winsound.SND_ASYNC)

for other platforms: You can try this Pygame/SDL

pygame.mixer.init()
pygame.mixer.music.load("file.mp3")
pygame.mixer.music.play()

Hope this will help!

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Thank!

Comments

THANX

don't forget this:

import winsound
winsound.PlaySound("filename"....

only open .wav files

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Hello, can you please tell me that, where to store the file while using in my game because I saved it in desktop and I used it in my program and it shows an error.

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Hi, @There,

Could you please post the error you are facing? Please post your workaround so that it gets easier to resolve the bug.

Answer 2

In windows:

Use winsound.SND_ASYNC to play them asynchronously

import winsound
winsound.PlaySound("filename", winsound.SND_ASYNC | winsound.SND_ALIAS )

To stop playing

winsound.PlaySound(None, winsound.SND_ASYNC)

In mac or other platforms: You can try this Pygame/SDL

pygame.mixer.init()
pygame.mixer.music.load("file.mp3")
pygame.mixer.music.play()

Answer 3

Playsound has an option for running in the background -> additional argument to be set to 0:

playsound('xxxxx.mp3", **0**)