I've only tried to use snack once and had a similar problem playing 
sound files (although I did get it to generate nice tones). I resorted 
to using an external command for playing sound files (I use artsplay, 
because I run artsd for my sound system under Linux). I just  used 
os.system() to fork the sound playing commands. Unfortunately, it's not 
portable, but it was quick and easy. I needed it as a replacement for 
Winsound on Linux.

--John

billwinn@[...].edu wrote:

> I'm a novice Python programmer who wants to use Snatch. I have everything installed correct
ly as far as I can tell. But when I try to play something I get an error that says I failed 
to set the number of channels. Here's what I get:
> 
>   
> 
> >>>from Tkinter import *
> >>>root = Tk()
> >>>import tkSnack
> >>>tkSnack.initializeSnack(root)
> >>>snd=tkSnack.Sound()
> >>>snd.read('/usr/games/chromium/data/wav/music_game.wav')
> >>>snd.play()
> >>>        
> >>>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/tkSnack.py", line 277, in play
>     self.tk.call((self.name, 'play') + self._options(kw))
> TclError: Failed setting number of channels.
> 
> Any help will be most welcome.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bil
> 
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