Playing sound in background in python while GUI is running with tkinter

Question

I have been trying to run sound in background while App is running. I am Arch Linux and Python 3.8 I have tried playsound as like this

playsound('music.mp3', False)

but I get error saying system not supported. I have also tried pygame following way:

from pygame import mixer
mixer.init()
mixer.music.load("music.mp3")
mixer.music.play()

But I get error pygame.error: Unrecognized audio format. Is there any other way I can run music in background some task is executing on GUI with tkinter. The program will run on arch and Ubuntu.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 10 '20 at 11:46

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Try this code it will run the background music continuously till the app is running

mixer.music.play(-1)

answered Jul 10 '20 at 11:46

Gaurav Kulkarni

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I still get error `pygame.error: Unrecognized audio format`. I don't want it to run continuously either. Its gonna play for 10s only – SahilM Jul 10 '20 at 11:52
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convert your mp3 file to .wav format then it will 100% work – Gaurav Kulkarni Jul 10 '20 at 11:54
Thanks using wav format worked. Can you also tell me if there is a way in mixer to kill process after 10s – SahilM Jul 10 '20 at 12:03

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 11 '20 at 18:19

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Try this:

mixer.music.play(-1)

And if you want your background music to be stopped in 10s then add this too:

gui_name.after(10000,  mixer.music.stop)

Hope it will help you.

answered Jul 11 '20 at 18:19

Ayush Raj

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Playing sound in background in python while GUI is running with tkinter

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