Playing multiple sound files at same time

[Max Bedacht]

When using pygame directly you have access to multiple sound channels. Using these you can play, for example,  background music and at the same time have the game sprites making their own sounds.

Is there any way to do this with Kivy? It seems that when you play a sound when another is already playing you get nothing. 

[Bruce Cropley]

I haven't experienced this. Could you create a minimal example?

[knappador]

I can 2nd that I don't do anything special with 1.8.0+ to play multiple sounds concurrently.  I DO have to make sure to use SoundLoader multiple times to play the same sound file concurrently.  A snippet to do so as needed follows:

DEBUG_SOUND = False

class Sounds(object):

    def __init__(self):

        self.sounds = {}

        super(Sounds, self).__init__()

    

    def __getattr__(self, attr, volume=None):

        if not attr.startswith('play_'):

            return object.__getattribute__(self, attr)

        f = attr.split('play_')[1]

        sounds = getattr(self, 'sounds')

        loaded = sounds.get(f, [])

        ready = None

        for l in loaded:

            if l.state == 'stop':

                ready = l

                break

        if ready == None:

            ready = SoundLoader.load('audio/' + f + '.mp3')

            sounds[f] = loaded

            loaded.append(ready)

        if platform == 'android' or DEBUG_SOUND:

            return ready.play

        else:

            return lambda *args: None

sounds = Sounds()

sounds.play_meow() # loads a copy

sounds.play_meow() # loads a second copy