How can I play an audio file in the background using Python

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I'm just making a small game using pygame and I've been wanting to add some background music. Can someone guide me?
Apr 4, 2018 in Python by aryya
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3 answers to this question.

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down voteacceptedFor windows:

you could use  winsound.SND_ASYNC to play them asynchronously

import winsound
winsound.PlaySound("filename", winsound.SND_ASYNC | winsound.SND_ALIAS )

To stop playing

winsound.PlaySound(None, winsound.SND_ASYNC)

for other platforms: You can try this Pygame/SDL

pygame.mixer.init()
pygame.mixer.music.load("file.mp3")
pygame.mixer.music.play()


Hope this will help!

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Thank!

answered Apr 4, 2018 by charlie_brown
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THANX

don't forget this:

import winsound
winsound.PlaySound("filename"....
only open .wav files
Hello, can you please tell me that, where to store the file while using in my game because I saved it in desktop and I used it in my program and it shows an error.

Hi, @There,

Could you please post the error you are facing? Please post your workaround so that it gets easier to resolve the bug.

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In windows:

Use winsound.SND_ASYNC to play them asynchronously

import winsound
winsound.PlaySound("filename", winsound.SND_ASYNC | winsound.SND_ALIAS )

To stop playing

winsound.PlaySound(None, winsound.SND_ASYNC)

In mac or other platforms: You can try this Pygame/SDL

pygame.mixer.init()
pygame.mixer.music.load("file.mp3")
pygame.mixer.music.play()
answered Oct 12, 2018 by findingbugs
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Playsound has an option for running in the background -> additional argument to be set to 0:

playsound('xxxxx.mp3", **0**)
answered Oct 12, 2018 by Priyaj
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