Want to play audio on your Raspberry Pi running Raspbian, while logged in to a non-root user account? Me, too!
Seems like such a simple task.
Consider the following code snippet using PyGame:
import time
import pygame
pygame.mixer.init()
pygame.mixer.music.load("testfile.wav")
pygame.mixer.music.play()
while pygame.mixer.music.get_busy() == True:
time.sleep(.25)
Let's try it:
$ python soundtest.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./soundtest.py", line 3, in <module>
pygame.mixer.init()
pygame.error: No available audio device
I've abandoned Windows in favor of Linux (Ubuntu) over the last several years, so I don't suffer from malware/crapware infestations (they never really hit me much, me being hyper-vigilant about installing stuff on my systems...) I've moved all family members off Windows as well, if they want me to help maintain their computers.
