Re: [pygame] Poor sound

[theGREENzebra <tgz@orotech.net>]

> The sound get slightly distorted and scratchy. I have sound of a gong 
> (44000 16bit Stereo)) that  gets spikes, If I play
> the same sound but using the winsound module it sounds perfect, but then 
> I can only play one sound at a time.
> I don't know if this is an issue with NT W2K and XP, but anyway it 
> doesn't sound good. It may work better under Linux but I haven't
> got a working Linux desktop right now.
>
> Btw I have used   pygame.mixer.pre_init(44100, -16) . How do you know 
> whether to use  -16 or 16, not that I can hear any differens.
Try not using pre_init at all. I know it's not going to get you your 
specific samplingrate and/or bit depth, but see if the scratchies go away. 
I've experienced this before and that might be how I solved it.

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