Not able to loop between songs using pygame.mixer.music

Question

def selection():
    for song in my_music:
        print(song)
        pygame.mixer.music.load(song)
        pygame.mixer.music.play(loops=0)

Here my_music is list containing the paths of mp3 files that i want to play but, the problem is that it plays only first file though the my_music list contains more than 5. I also used print(song) to check but it prints the paths of all files but plays only one. can someone help!!

Answer 1

the pygame.mixer.music.play() is not blocking. The songs need to be queued into the mixer and then played. The loops=x argument is used to repeat the songs in the queue

def play_songs(song_list):
    for song in song_list:
        print("queueing song: {}".format(song))
        pygame.mixer.music.queue(song)
    print("now playing...")
    pygame.mixer.music.play(loops=-1)        # -1 means repeat forever