Re: [pygame] pygame music

[Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mark,

I don't see a problem adding the Mix_SetMusicPosition and 
Mix_FadeInMusicPos functions to pygame.mixer.music. As to why they are 
not in Pygame, it's because they were originally not in SDL_mixer either.

Lenard Lindstrom

Mark Reed wrote:
> I see in the documentation that SDL_mixer music functions support the
> seeking I need. Is it difficult to add those functions to pygame?
> Perhaps there are issues that prevented them initially being added?
>
> Mark
>
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   
> > Hi Mark,
> >
> > Pygame uses the SDL_mixer library for music playback. So it all depends on
> > how SDL_mixer was built and which other libraries are present. The possible
> > formats are listed in the SDL_mixer documentation here:
> > http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_mixer/docs/SDL_mixer_frame.html
> >
> > Lenard
> >
> > Mark Reed wrote:
> >     
> > > What are the supported file formats for the music module?
> > >
> > > How big a deal would it be to add seek support or at least rewind(
> > > milliseconds ) instead of rewind() which returns to the start?
> > >
> > > Right now I'm stuck working with wxPython's media module that uses
> > > windows media player on windows.. ugh.
> > >
> > > Mark
> > >
> > >       
> >