[Tutor] Sound problems

[Dave Angel]

Tim Goddard wrote:
> I'm still learning, and this may be better served on a pygame mailing
> list but I thought I'd try here first.
>
> I'm following the python programming for absolute beginners which uses
> livewires and pygame to do some simple games.  My difficulty comes
> from not using the module versions used in the book and using the
> latest online offerings.
>
> The book creates a simple program to play music and sound in a console
> environment.
>
> initially the code was (shortened for brevity):
>
> from livewires import games
>
> # load a sound file
> missile = games.load_sound("missile.wav")
>
> #load the music file
> games.load_music("theme.mid")
>
> choice == None
> while choice != "0":
>     print """
>     1 - play missile sound
>     2 - play music
>     """
>     choice = raw_input("Choose your selection: ")
>     if choice == "1":
>         missile.play()
>     elif choice == "2":
>         games.play_music()
>
> Which gives an error because the load_music is not part of the latest
> games.py module.  So after reading through games.py I discovered that
> most of it is a pass through to pygames.  Also the sound does not
> play.
>
> My modified code which plays music but still not sound is:
> from livewires import games
> # If I don't keep the above line, I get an error that pygame.mixer is
> not initialized properly
>
> import pygame
>
> # load a sound file
> missile = pygame.mixer.Sound('pickup.wav')
>
> # load the music file
> pygame.mixer.music.load("theme.mid")
>
> <menu code>
>
>     if choice == "1":
>         missile.play(3)  # loop .wav three times.
>         print "Playing missile sound"
>
>     elif choice == "2":
>         pygame.mixer.music.play()
>         print "Playing theme music"
>
> My question is why won't the sound play in the console?  When I use
> the same code in a program with a screen, it plays normally.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>   
If I may make a guess (I've never used pygame), I'd suggest that the 
sound playing logic counts on using the event loop for its timing.  So 
without an event loop, no sound.

DaveA