Clever Geek Handbook

Combining background MIDI music with MIDI output in pygame

So I am working with this game in which I want to have background music and trigger notes using MIDI out. The background music must also be in MIDI format. Long story short, I have something like:

pygame.init()
pygame.midi.init()

pygame.mixer.music.load("background.mid")

# I have 2 midi devices available, have tried with both 
output = pygame.midi.Output(pygame.midi.get_default_output_id())
pygame.mixer.music.play()
...

... And as soon as he tries to play music, he falls. No trace, but "pythonw.exe has stopped working." I'm not sure how MIDI works, but I think the music and the output are conflicting because they are trying to use the same devices. My question is, is there a way around this or should I use a different format for the music?

+3


source to share


1 answer


Try this little snippet and it should work fine:

import pygame
import time

pygame.mixer.init()
pygame.mixer.music.load("background.mid")
pygame.mixer.music.play()

time.sleep(10000)


In fact, try multiple processes of this script and you shouldn't have any problems either.

0


source






More articles:


All Articles