[Tutor] Python audio help needed

[Michael Lange]

On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 00:19:24 +0200
Tim <tim.ronning at start.no> wrote:

> Hello list, and greetings from Norway
> 
> I'm new to this list and to Python (obviously since I'm asking questions 
> here..)
> 
> In paralell with learning from books, online training, etc, I have also 
> started my own little project. I want to build a dead simple mp3 player 
> using pymad (libmad) library and PyQt when I get the basics to work.
> 
...
> 
> Can anyone help me out here. Is there an ALSA audio module out there 
> somewhere? Or should I set some other value to setfmt() All help is greatly 
> appriciated.
> 
> Best regards
> Tim

Hi Tim,

maybe you should try tkSnack : www.speech.kth.se/snack

Snack supports both OSS and ALSA (however, when I tried to compile the sources with "--enable-alsa"  option it did NOT work,
but compiling without I have no problems using ALSA).
Snack's usage is quite simple and file formats are recognized automatically by the filename extension, so it is fairly easy to
play mp3 files:

	import tkSnack
	s = tkSnack.Sound(file='somefile.mp3')
	s.play()
This way you can even play large files(bigger than system memory.

I hope this helps.

Cheers

Michael