Pygame bad sound quality

Question

Im trying to play a backround music in pygame but the qualtiy is kinda bad, altough if i play the the mp3 file outside python, for example in vlc, the sound quality is perfectly fine, so there is no issue with the file itself / my headset. this is the code that i used to play the song:

mixer.music.load("song.mp3")
mixer.music.set_volume(0.6)
mixer.music.play(-1)

any ideas how to fix it?

Answer 1

Try using pygame.mixer.init()

For example:

pygame.mixer.init(44100, -16, 2, 2048) # (frequency, size, channels, buffer)

It's possible that a low buffer size is attributing to a poor audio quality. Play around with the values.

Read up on mixer.init here