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Play sound in a repl with Python

rodrigogiraoserrao

Hello everyone,

In light of the new challenge I was going to create something with Python (and pygame) and it would involve playing sounds, but turns out I cannot use the pygame.mixer module. Is it because I am a n00b?
Either way, is there any (relatively simple) way of playing audio in a Python repl?

Thanks!

Answered by 21natzil [earned 5 cycles]

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Sorry, but repl.it does not support sound at the moment. Sorry for the inconvenience. This feature is planned and will be added in time.

rodrigogiraoserrao

@21natzil Ok, then there is something I am missing; this music box has sound when I play it! But you said that repl.it does not support sound, so what is the distinction here?

@RojerGS When creating a website on repl.it, you're only restricted by your browser. When working with Python / Pygame repls, sound is not supported, sorry for the confusion.

@21natzil 2years and still nothing done?

MarkusStepanovs

I needed an alert tone for a project and found a very ugly solution:

print ('\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a')

But hey, it works!

@MarkusStepanovs how does it work?

@finlaycameron06 It takes advantage of the "\a" bell escape sequence which makes a sound in the repl.it python terminal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_character

@MarkusStepanovs It doesn't work for me. Like it doesn't play the sound. Did they change it so it doensn't work anymore cuz it has ben 7 months since u said this.

@MarkusStepanovs It doesnt work for some reason. How do I make it work?

works just fine for me!!
@MarkusStepanovs

please insert the audio system because I loved repl.it so much and don't wanna quit this by just 1 excuse please add it as soon as you can.
Thanks.

It seems that they have built an explorer feature to solve this! More info here.

cool. hope it turns out good bro

@MarkusStepanovs Instead of printing it repeatedly, you can use a loop.
This is what I made:

import time

def beep():
print ("\a")

for i in range(10):
beep()
time.sleep(0.1)

It works, but it prints a new line every time it plays the sound. Anyone know a better solution?


import time

def beep(interval = 0.1, frequency = 10):
    for i in range(frequency):
        print ("\a", end = "\r")
        time.sleep(interval)

beep()

This sets the end argument of the print statement to a carriage return escape sequence.
Moving it back to the start of the line instead of a new one by default.

You could also add parameters to the function to control the interval and frequency of the bell/alert tone.

pl