#!/usr/bin/env python """extremely simple demonstration playing a soundfile and waiting for it to finish. you'll need the pygame.mixer module for this to work. Note how in this simple example we don't even bother loading all of the pygame package. Just pick the mixer for sound and time for the delay function.""" import os.path import pygame.mixer, pygame.time mixer = pygame.mixer time = pygame.time #choose a desired audio format mixer.init(11025) #raises exception on fail #load the sound file = os.path.join('data', 'secosmic_lo.wav') sound = mixer.Sound(file) #start playing print 'Playing Sound...' channel = sound.play() #poll until finished while channel.get_busy(): #still playing print ' ...still going...' time.wait(1000) print '...Finished'