Play MIDI files using pygame

playmidi.py

# play .mid music files using PyGame on your computer's sound card
# PyGame is free from: http://www.pygame.org/news.html
# tested with Python25 and PyGame171      vegaseat     27aug2007
import pygame
def play_music(music_file):
    """
    stream music with mixer.music module in blocking manner
    this will stream the sound from disk while playing
    """
    clock = pygame.time.Clock()
    try:
        pygame.mixer.music.load(music_file)
        print "Music file %s loaded!" % music_file
    except pygame.error:
        print "File %s not found! (%s)" % (music_file, pygame.get_error())
        return
    pygame.mixer.music.play()
    while pygame.mixer.music.get_busy():
        # check if playback has finished
        clock.tick(30)
# pick a midi music file you have ...
# (if not in working folder use full path)

import os
def music_files():
    music_dir = "/Users/janderson/Music/MIDI/"
    midi_files = os.listdir(music_dir)
    for one in midi_files:
        yield music_dir + one


freq = 44100    # audio CD quality
bitsize = -16   # unsigned 16 bit
channels = 2    # 1 is mono, 2 is stereo
buffer = 1024    # number of samples
pygame.mixer.init(freq, bitsize, channels, buffer)
# optional volume 0 to 1.0
pygame.mixer.music.set_volume(0.8)
for music_file in music_files():
    try:
        play_music(music_file)
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        # if user hits Ctrl/C then exit
        # (works only in console mode)
        while True:
            action = raw_input('Enter Q to Quit, Enter to Skip. ').lower()
            if action == 'q':
                pygame.mixer.music.fadeout(1000)
                pygame.mixer.music.stop()
                raise SystemExit
            else:
                break

Hey do you have any idea, how to pause and unpause music.
pygame.mixer.music.pause()
This isn't working, and I've read that it happens only, whem using MIDI files.

To pause and unpause, I use Linux command-line tools. To pause, press CTL-Z. To unpause, run fg.

Updated for Python 3:

# play .mid music files using PyGame on your computer's sound card
# PyGame is free from: http://www.pygame.org/news.html
# tested with Python25 and PyGame171      vegaseat     27aug2007
import pygame
def play_music(music_file):
    """
    stream music with mixer.music module in blocking manner
    this will stream the sound from disk while playing
    """
    clock = pygame.time.Clock()
    try:
        pygame.mixer.music.load(music_file)
        print("Music file %s loaded!" % music_file)
    except pygame.error:
        print("File %s not found! (%s)" % (music_file, pygame.get_error()))
        return
    pygame.mixer.music.play()
    while pygame.mixer.music.get_busy():
        # check if playback has finished
        clock.tick(30)
# pick a midi music file you have ...
# (if not in working folder use full path)

import os
def music_files():
    music_dir = "/Users/jsa/Music/MIDI/"
    midi_files = os.listdir(music_dir)
    for one in midi_files:
        yield music_dir + one


freq = 44100    # audio CD quality
bitsize = -16   # unsigned 16 bit
channels = 2    # 1 is mono, 2 is stereo
buffer = 1024    # number of samples
pygame.mixer.init(freq, bitsize, channels, buffer)
# optional volume 0 to 1.0
pygame.mixer.music.set_volume(0.8)
for music_file in music_files():
    try:
        play_music(music_file)
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        # if user hits Ctrl/C then exit
        # (works only in console mode)
        while True:
            action = input('Enter Q to Quit, Enter to Skip. ').lower()
            if action == 'q':
                pygame.mixer.music.fadeout(1000)
                pygame.mixer.music.stop()
                raise SystemExit
            else:
                break

I installed it locally using poetry. Here's the pyproject.toml:

[tool.poetry]
name = "playmidi"
version = "0.1.0"
description = ""
authors = ["John Anderson <[email protected]>"]

[tool.poetry.dependencies]
python = "^3.9"
pygame = "^2.0.0"

[tool.poetry.dev-dependencies]

[build-system]
requires = ["poetry-core>=1.0.0"]
build-backend = "poetry.core.masonry.api"

Can you stream a midi from a URL or only play local midi?