I tried some others and still get the same error. (error: Unrecognized sound
file type)
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 8:00 AM, PyMike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Douglas
>
> Just to let you know, my sound will load and play with pygame without the
> string compression. It's a mere 0.18 seconds long. I tried some other
> sounds that were short and I got ~around~ the same results.
>
> After editing sound2.py,
>
> "RIFF\x16\xe9\x00\x00WAVEfmt
> \x10\x00\x00\x00\x01\x00\x01\x00D\xac\x00\x00\x88X\x01\x00\x02\x00\x10\x00data\xf2\xe8\x00\x00\xd2$\xcf(U\xf0r+\xc3\x16\x0c\xf6\xa7\xdc2\x0bH\xf8\x95\xdcy\xd6\x06!\xbc\x05\x17\xe5\xbf\xe4\xd5\xfa\n\xea'\xedN\xfb\xec!\x055\x88\xecy\xcb\xdf\xc8#\xd2x\x16\xf1\xd0|\xf9\x1f\x02\x86\xe2\x04\xf3\xa4'G\x1c\xfd\xfb7B\x86"
>
> import binascii
> from cStringIO import StringIO
> from pygame import mixer
>
> snd = binascii.a2b_base64(__doc__)
> f = StringIO(snd)
>
> mixer.init()
> sound = mixer.Sound(f)
> sound.play()
>
> I get this traceback:
>
> >>>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "C:\Documents and Settings\Michael\Desktop\sound2.py", line 8, in
> <module>
> snd = binascii.a2b_base64(__doc__)
> Error: Incorrect padding
> >>>
>
> Then I switched a2b_base64 to b2a_base64 and got this traceback:
>
> >>>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "C:\Documents and Settings\Michael\Desktop\sound2.py", line 12, in
> <module>
> sound = mixer.Sound(f)
> error: Unrecognized sound file type
> >>>
>
> I'm going to try a few other sound files real quick.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 1:56 AM, Douglas Bagnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > hi Mike
> >
> > This is your main problem:
> >
> > >> print len(s)
> > >>
> > >> 217
> >
> > Your wave file is broken. In 16 bit mono, 217 bytes leaves room for 94
> > samples when you take away the headers. That's about 1/500 of a second
> > at 44.1 kHz. Your sound is not actually that short: the file is broken.
> >
> > Then later you wrote:
> >
> > > f = open("shoot.wav")
> > > s = f.read()
> > > f.close()
> > > print len(s)
> > > print len(repr(s))
> > > print len(eval(repr(s)))
> > >
> > > b64 = binascii.b2a_base64(snd)
> >
> >
> > You mean binascii.b2a_base64(s).
> > snd is not defined yet.
> >
> > >
> > > f = open("sound2.py", "wr").write(str(repr(b64)))
> >
> > repr() always returns a string -- there's no need for str().
> > Also, f here will always be None, because it is the result of
> > open().write() not open().
> >
> > Anyway, at this point sound2.py will contain a python representation of
> > a sound, and nothing else, which incidentally makes it the module's
> > __doc__ string.
> >
> > So then, if you modify sound2.py, adding the following lines:
> >
> >
> > 'RIFFZB\x00\x00WAVEfmt \x10\x00[...]' #this is the existing line
> >
> > import binascii
> > from cStringIO import StringIO
> > from pygame import mixer
> >
> > snd = binascii.a2b_base64(__doc__)
> > f = StringIO(snd)
> >
> > mixer.init()
> > sound = mixer.Sound(f)
> > sound.play()
> >
> >
> > It will play. At least it would if you didn't have a corrupt wav file.
> >
> >
> > >>>>>> I tried that out, and it got close to working. But I get an
> > >>>>> "unrecognized file-type"' error
> >
> >
> > It always helps if you say where an exception occurs. Pasting the
> > traceback is good.
> >
> >
> >
> > douglas
> >
>
>
>
> --
> - PyMike
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- PyMike
