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Re: [pygame] Sound format



On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 05:19:38 +0100, Pete Shinners <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 07:41 +0100, John Eriksson wrote:
Which music formats can pygame.mixer play?
I know there are some issues with MP3 on windows but how about Linux?
Any more formats than MP3 and OGG??

Pygame can load the sound formats that SDL_mixer supports. This includes sampled data like WAV, VOC, AIFF, MP3, and OGG. There are also a lot of tracker style formats like MOD, XM, XT, MIDI.

MP3 support is tricky because the SMPEG library doesn't compile well
with MSVC. It is also a bit unsupported and can't handle things like
id3v2 tags.

I've been looking at the various ways of playing different audio formats (mp3, ogg, ...) on a Windows platform these last days, and it appears pyMedia is the only package that provides this out of the box. The rest are either not up-to-date (audiere only works with python 2.3 for example), need extra compiling (not always an option), or work with specific libraries (which sometimes aren't cross-platform).