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It takes about one and a half seconds before the mixer is ready to start outputting sound. So if you play a sound immediately it gets eaten if the sound is short.

Okay, I found out the problem. Audio doesn't work unless you input this shell command first if you want HDMI: amixer -c 0 cset numid=3 2 or if you want headphones: amixer -c 0 cset numid=3 1 The python games that come with the Pi runs a shell script first which prompts you to choose an option and th...

Are you trying to get the sound on your HDMI TV or from the analog headphone socket? Have you set the volume above zero (set to eleven)? http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=24943 I'm using HDMI. have not yet tried headphones. Volume is fine, as other sounds play and it plays when...

I'm trying to play a sound using pygame. I found this solution online: import pygame pygame.mixer.init() sound = pygame.mixer.Sound("/usr/share/scratch/Media/Sounds/Animal/Meow.wav") sound.play() However, I hear nothing. After messing around I found that if I run one of the Python Games that comes w...

I think I've fixed it, was told to type this in to the console and it seems to work now:

I belive I'm having a similar issue with my mk520 Logitech Wireless Combo (UK). It's a UK keyboard, which I configured as UK in the raspi-config, but it's acting American, e.g. when press shift-3 (should be £ as is displayed on the keyboard) it types the hash symbol #. I have been told to check the ...