It looks like you may have missed the alternative solution in my email.
On Thu, Jun 7, 2018, 01:04 Alec Bennett <wrybr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think the answer that sticks out to me is that if these are musical
> horn sounds, you might consider using pygame.mixer.music, which will stream
> the sounds as needed.
>
> A very good idea, and the route I originally took, but as far as I can
> tell pygame.mixer.music doesn't support polyphony, and I occasionally need
> to play multiple sounds at once.
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> On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 10:59 PM, Daniel Foerster <pydsig...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I think the answer that sticks out to me is that if these are musical
>> horn sounds, you might consider using pygame.mixer.music, which will stream
>> the sounds as needed. However, this won't work if you have other music
>> playing or if you want multiple horns to be able to play at the same time.
>>
>> A second solution is to load the sounds in the background of the game,
>> especially if you're going to launch on a menu where the sounds won't be
>> needed. You can pre-populate a dictionary with dummy sounds and use a
>> thread to go through and load each sound into the dictionary while the user
>> interacts with the menu.
>>
>> SOUND_PATH_MAPPING = {'horn_funny': 'horn_funny.ogg', 'horn_sad':
>> 'extra_sounds/horn_sad.wav'}
>>
>> SOUNDS = {name: None for name in SOUND_PATH_MAPPING}
>>
>> def load_sounds():
>>
>> for name, path in SOUND_PATH_MAPPING:
>>
>> SOUNDS[name] = pygame.mixer.Sound(path)
>>
>>
>> def load_sounds_background():
>>
>> thread.start_new_thread(load_sounds, ())
>>
>>
>> If there's a legitimate chance that the player might try to use the horn
>> sounds before they've finished loading, just have the horn logic check for
>> Nones before trying to play or have a dummy sound object with a play method
>> that does nothing.
>>
>> A full example of how you might do this with a class:
>> https://gist.github.com/pydsigner/231c0812f9f91050dd83c744d6d5dc4b
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 12:31 AM, Alec Bennett <wrybr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry, I left out the line where I try to save the file:
>>>
>>> > pickle.dump( sound_obj, open( "sound.pickled", "wb" ) )
>>>
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>>> On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 10:29 PM, Alec Bennett <wrybr...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm building a musical horn for my car with PyGame, and it works
>>>> perfectly, but since it needs to load each of the 20 sounds on startup it
>>>> takes about 30 seconds to load. I'm running it on a Raspberry Pi, which
>>>> doesn't help of course.
>>>>
>>>> I thought I'd simply save the Sound objects as pickle objects, but that
>>>> produces an error:
>>>>
>>>> > sound_obj = pygame.mixer.Sound("whatever.wav")
>>>>
>>>> > can't pickle Sound objects
>>>>
>>>> I also tried the dill module (https://github.com/uqfoundation/dill)
>>>> but with similar results:
>>>>
>>>> > sound_obj = pygame.mixer.Sound("whatever.wav")
>>>>
>>>> > Can't pickle <type 'Sound'>: it's not found as __builtin__.Sound
>>>>
>>>> I don't imagine can think of some clever way to save the preloaded
>>>> Sounds, or otherwise speed up the load times?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
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