How do play audio playsound in background of Python script

Question

I am just writing a small python game for fun and I have a function that does the beginning narrative.

I am trying to get the audio to play in the background but unfortunately the mp3 file plays first before the function continues.

How do I get it to run in the background?

import playsound

def displayIntro():
playsound.playsound('storm.mp3',True)
print('')
print('')
print_slow('The year is 1845, you have just arrived home...')

Also, is there any way of controlling the volume of the play sound module?

I should add that I am using a Mac, and I am not wedded to using playsound, it just seems to be the only module that I can get working.

Answer 1

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()

Hope it works!!

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Thanks!

Answer 2

There’s an optional second argument, block, which is set to True by default. Setting it to False makes the function run asynchronously (At the same time as your program)

Comments

Can you show some example to demonstrate better what you are explaining here. Like some example of winsound.Playsound() function.