Why can't I use a background music in Python?

Question

I'm learning Python by making small games, with Turtle. I want a background music playing. It's the only sound that doesn't work. When I add this sound, other sounds don't work also !

Here is what I get :

winsound.PlaySound("background.wav", winsound.SND_ASYNC)
RuntimeError: Failed to play sound

My code:

while True:
winsound.PlaySound("background.wav", winsound.SND_ASYNC)

wn.update()

# Move the ball
ball.setx(ball.xcor() + ball.dx)
ball.sety(ball.ycor() + ball.dy)

Either way you don't want to start this sound on every update. I.e. you better move `PlaySound` out of the loop — Alexey S. Larionov, Jul 02 '21 at 14:25
Ya might have better luck with [pygame's mixer command](https://stackoverflow.com/a/61444109/3342050) — Doyousketch2, Jul 02 '21 at 21:22

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 02 '21 at 18:24

You should play the sound in another thread so that the code will be executing at the same time.

import time
import winsound
from threading import Thread

def play_sound():
   winsound.PlaySound("./background.wav", winsound.SND_FILENAME|winsound.SND_ASYNC)

while True:
   thread = Thread(target=play_sound)
   thread.start()
   print ('hello')
   time.sleep(2)

I don't have experience with this module but hope you get the idea.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 07 '21 at 12:43

0

Just import playsound get the audio file you need and run it.

from playsound import playsound
playsound('audio.mp3') # The audio file you want to play.

answered Jul 07 '21 at 12:43

SecretLloyd

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Why can't I use a background music in Python?

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