Kivy Cookbook

Working with audio

Nowadays, the audio integration in our app is vital. You could not realize a video game without audio or an app that does not use multimedia. We will create a sample with just one button which when pressed plays an audio.

Getting ready

We need an audio file in this recipe in the traditional audio formats (mp3, mp4, wav, wma, b-mtp, ogg, spx, midi). If you do not have any, you always can get one from sites such as https://www.freesound.org.

How to do it…

We will use a simple Python file with just one widget to play the audio file. To complete the recipe, let's follow these steps:

1. Import the usual kivy package.
2. Import the SoundLoader package.
3. Define the MyW() class.
4. Define the __init__() method.
5. Create a button with the label Play.
6. Bind ...