On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 7:59 AM, Christopher Night
wrote:
> I recommend saving the sound as a raw buffer. First in a separate script:
>
> sound = pygame.mixer.Sound("music1.wav")
> open("music1.buf", "wb").write(sound.get_raw())
>
> Then in your game:
> sound = pygame.mixer.Sound(buffer=open("musi
>
>
>
> 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
On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 4:21 AM, Greg Ewing
wrote:
> Alec Bennett wrote:
>
>> 16 bit wav files. 1411 kbps. About 5 megs each but one is very long (a 13
>> minute medley of all of them, 133 megs).
>>
>
> Okay, I didn't realise they were that big -- I was thinking
> short horn sounds, not substantia
I recommend saving the sound as a raw buffer. First in a separate script:
sound = pygame.mixer.Sound("music1.wav")
open("music1.buf", "wb").write(sound.get_raw())
Then in your game:
sound = pygame.mixer.Sound(buffer=open("music1.buf", "rb").read())
I found about 4x speedup of reading a large fil
It looks like you may have missed the alternative solution in my email.
On Thu, Jun 7, 2018, 01:04 Alec Bennett 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.
>
Alec Bennett wrote:
16 bit wav files. 1411 kbps. About 5 megs each but one is very long (a
13 minute medley of all of them, 133 megs).
Okay, I didn't realise they were that big -- I was thinking
short horn sounds, not substantial pieces of music!
You bring up a good point, I can certainly mak
16 bit wav files. 1411 kbps. About 5 megs each but one is very long (a 13
minute medley of all of them, 133 megs).
You bring up a good point, I can certainly make them mono.
But surely there must be some way to save a preloaded state?
On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 11:32 PM, Greg Ewing
wrote:
> Alec
Alec Bennett wrote:
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.
How big are the sound files? Unless they're really enormous,
that sounds excessive, even for an R. Pi.
What format are
