hi, pygame has dodgey mp3 support, as it uses smpeg which doesn't do mp3 very well.
Mostly it's a good idea to use ogg vorbis format if you can, or use a different way to convert the mp3 files to wav files then load those with pygame. cheers, On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Stefan Huchler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > i have following problem with pygame: > >>>> import pygame >>>> pygame.mixer.init() >>>> pygame.mixer.Sound('test.mp3') > <pygame.mixer.Sound object at 0x7f16a8616350> >>>> x = pygame.mixer.Sound('test.mp3') >>>> x.get_length() > 9.0702946181409061e-05 > > the mp3 is 5min 18 sec long (xmms) > > pygame v. 1.8 > > pygame < 1.8 dont support mp3 with pygame.mixer.Sound module and > pygame.mixer.music has no get_lenth method so i have to use > 1.8 > i postet the problem on your irc channel one guy (_raz_) testet it > with latest svn trunk, he confirmed that this bug is also with this > version. > > > greetings > > Stefan Huchler > www.canta-game.org >