Sound not working - releaseALC: 1 device not closed

[Ecurb]

Hello,

I'm trying to use the pyglet library to play an mpf file in my program. After a good amount of fooling with it, it now works on my computer, however it does not work on the RP. The error message I get is "releaseALC: 1 device not closed". And the code I'm using is:

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music = pyglet.media.load("pig_sound1.mp3")
music.play()
pyglet.clock.schedule_once(exiter, music.duration)
pyglet.app.run()

Any ideas?

Bruce

[elParaguayo]

Bruce,

Is that the full extent of the error message?

The reason I ask is that this page shows that there might be another error when trying to play compressed media.

Please post the full error message and someone with some pyglet experience may be able to help.

el_P

[Ecurb]

hi el_P,

the full error says "AL lib: releaseALC: 1 device not closed"

maybe it has something to do with the library?

Bruce

[Ecurb]

or maybe there is an easier way to play some audio? I don't care if it's wav or mp3, just need to play some small clips.

[elParaguayo]

Did you also install AVbin?

[elParaguayo]

I get the following error:

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>>> import pyglet
>>> music = pyglet.media.load("immunity.mp3")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyglet/media/__init__.py", line 1386, in load
    source = _source_class(filename, file)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyglet/media/riff.py", line 202, in __init__
    'AVbin is required to decode compressed media')
pyglet.media.riff.WAVEFormatException: AVbin is required to decode compressed media

and I've installed AVBin.

Let me know how you installed it and we can try to work through this.

As for other ways of playing media, I suspect searching the forums will give you some results - it's not something I use my Pis for.

[elParaguayo]

Tried using pygame to play audio (see this post) and it worked for me.

Pygame docs are here: http://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/music.html

[Ecurb]

thanks all for the help! I ended up using pygame like in elParaguayo thread, worked perfect right away so just went with that.

Bruce