Re: [pygame] Noob question: playing sounds

[Carlos Zuniga <carlos.zun@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Philip Le Riche <philip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thank you for that, but still no joy whatsoever. I also tried uninstalling
> python-pygame and installing python3-pygame instead, but that gave the same
> error and furthermore, wouldn't recognise the existence of my wav file. I
> also tried installing pulseaudio, python-alsaaudio and python-pyalsa,
> thinking that it looked like pygame was failing to connect to the underlying
> sound system, but nothing made any difference.
>
> Are people successfully using pygame on the Raspberry Pi, or is it just
> broken?
>

I think you'll have more luck asking in the RPi forums.
Looking at the last post in this thread it seems to be a problem with
pulseaudio:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=45548&p=360197

Are you able to run other sound applications?