Play Ogg Files

[Devyn Collier Johnson]

On 07/21/2013 10:10 AM, Stefan Behnel wrote:
> Devyn Collier Johnson, 20.07.2013 14:25:
>> On 07/20/2013 12:21 AM, Stefan Behnel wrote:
>>> Devyn Collier Johnson, 20.07.2013 03:06:
>>>> I am making a chatbot that I host on Launchpad.net/neobot. I am currently
>>>> converting the engine from BASH code to Python3. I need to convert this for
>>>> cross-platform compatibility. I do not need to use Mplayer; I just show the
>>>> below code to give others a better idea what I am doing. I would prefer to
>>>> be Python3 independent; I do not want to use the system shell. I am fine
>>>> with using Python3 modules like Pygame (if there is a py3 module). As long
>>>> as the code is fast, efficient, and simple without depending on the system
>>>> shell or external apps, that would be nice. I also need the code to execute
>>>> while the rest of the script continues running.
>>>>
>>>>       jobs = multiprocessing.Process(SEND = subprocess.getoutput('mplayer
>>>> -nogui -nolirc -noar -quiet ./conf/boot.ogg')) #Boot sound#
>>> Well, since you mentioned it already, have you actually looked at pygame?
>>> It should be able to do what you want. There's also pyaudio, which is more
>>> specialised to, well, audio. A web search for python and ogg might provide
>>> more.
>> Thanks Stefan! I have not heard of Pyaudio; I will look into that. As for
>> Pygame, I have not been able to find any good documentation for playing
>> audio files.
> A quick duckduckgo search gave me this, at least:
>
> http://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/mixer.html
>
>
>> Plus, I recently learned that Pygame is not Python3 compatible.
> Looks like it's your lucky day:
>
> http://www.pygame.org/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#Does%20Pygame%20work%20with%20Python%203?
>
> Stefan
>
>
Thanks!

DCJ