Re: [pygame] pygame hangs with some mp3 files and hangs the hole prozess

[Pete Shinners <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lenard Lindstrom wrote:
> Pygame uses smpeg for mp3s. smpeg hasn't changed in SVN for at least a 
> year, so any recently installed version should be up-to-date.

The SMPEG library is a fairly simple mpeg decoder. It will not do a good 
job with MP3 files that are VBR or have an ID3V2 tag. If you have an mp3 
that isn't playing well, try to run it through a quality encoder and set 
it to basic encoding options. Even better would be convert the MP3 into 
an OGG. Smaller file and better compatibility.