I am trying to play simple wav files in my little game whenever the user hovers over a button, a little click sound is played (same goes for when the button is actually pres
THE ANSWER:
I wound up initiating the mixer with pre_init settings, then quitting the mixer, then initiating it again:
pygame.mixer.pre_init(22050, -16, 2, 1024) pygame.init() pygame.mixer.quit() pygame.mixer.init(22050, -16, 2, 1024)
Now it works just fine.