Fade Between Two Music Tracks in-progress in Pygame

Question

My intention is to have two music tracks, which are similar in nature, fade between each other at various times. When such a fade occurs,

Answer 1

So it looks like what you want to do in pygame is create two 'Sound' objects, and create a linear interpolation on the volume between the two of them.

I would create two vectors, each from [0,100], and relate them inversely with some constant. So when sound A is at 100, sound b is at 0. Then when an action occurs, you modify the constant.

t=0
A: [0 ... 100]
B: [0 ... 100]

t=1
ACTION

t=1.1
A:[0 .. 50 .. 100]
B:[0 .. 50 .. 100]

t=2
A:[0 ... 100]
B:[0 ... 100]

Now some code. I'm not familiar with pygame, but this should put you on the right track.

class Song(object):
    def __init__(self, songfilename):
        self.song = pygame.mixer.Sound(songfilename)

    def setVolume(self, somenumber):
        #number validation
        #possibly do some volume curve here if you wanted
        self.song.set_volume(somenumber)

class SongFader(object):
    def __init__(self, song1, song2):
        self.song1 = song1
        self.song2 = song2
        self.__xAxisMax = 100
        self.__xAxisMin = 0

    def fade(self, xaxis):
        assert(self.__xAxisMin <= xaxis <= self.__xAxisMax) 
          #could be any numbers you want. 
          #i chose 0-100 for convenience
        self.song1.setVolume(xaxis)
        self.song2.setVolume(self.__xAxisMax-xaxis)

song1 = Song('Song1.wav')
song2 = Song('Song2.wav')
fader = SongFader(song1, song2)

#Inside some event loop when you action is triggered
fader.fade(100) #Only song2 is playing
fader.fade(50)  #Songs are evenly split
fader.fade(0)   #Only left song is playing

edit

The linear interpolation is probably the more important concept here, so i have modified the fader class, with inspiration from Eric 's thread idea.

class SongFader(object):
    def __init__(self, song1, song2):
        self.song1 = song1
        self.song2 = song2
        self.lefttoright = False
        self.starttime = 0
        self.endtime = 0


    def fade(self, starttime, fadeleft):
        self.lefttoright = fadeleft == True #Being verbose here
        self.starttime = starttime #assuming time is in millis
        self.endtime = starttime + 1000
        Thread(target = self.fadeHelper).start()

    #this is where you define how the two songs are faded
    def fadeHelper(self):
        #if using thread, make sure you mutex the 'self.' variables
        starttime = self.starttime
        endtime = self.endtime
        lefttoright = self.lefttoright
        while starttime < endtime:
            fadevalue = (starttime - endtime) / 1000 #a val between [0,1]
            if lefttoright:
                self.song1.setVolume(fadevalue)
                self.song2.setVolume(1-fadevalue)
            else:
                self.song1.setVolume(1-fadevalue)
                self.song2.setVolume(fadefalue)
            starttime = getGameTimeFromSomewhere()