using winsound, plays error sound instead of chosen sound - python

I am using winsound to play a swoosh sound:
winsound.PlaySound("D:\GamesImade\pythonpong\bounce.wav", winsound.SND_ASYNC)
When I run it with my IDE it works. But if I run the exe file by itself it doesn't work, it plays the windows error sound.

I had a line of code that was supposed to run at a certain point and the code was accurately recognizing when the sound was supposed to be played, but it was only playing a windows error sound.
I changed the code from:
winsound.PlaySound("sound.wav", winsound.SND_ASYNC)
To:
winsound.PlaySound('C:/Users/username/OneDrive/Desktop/Project Folder/sound.wav', winsound.SND_ASYNC)
So, like the answer I switched the slashes around, but kept the SND_ASYNC and that runs in the program.

try changing the flag shown below and also the backslash to forward slash
winsound.PlaySound("D:\GamesImade\pythonpong\bounce.wav", winsound.SND_ASYNC)
to
winsound.PlaySound("D:/GamesImade/pythonpong/bounce.wav", winsound.SND_FILENAME)

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If a solution only works on a certain operating system, my final OS will be Linux, on a Rasperry Pi, but I'm trying to write and test the code on Windows. However, if that's not possible, I understand.
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I just found the source of the problem.
Before the error popped up, I had been trying to mess around with the metadata of the mp3 files in order to incorporate a genre system into the player, but nothing was working. I eventually decided to use csv files for that instead.
I must have done something wrong however when I was messing around with that metadata because I looked at the mp3s in File Explorer, and they were all 0 bytes. That's why pygame couldn't read the stream: there wasn't one! I plugged the pygame stuff back in, replaced the mp3s with new ones, and it works just fine now.
Thanks for the help anyway though, Torxed!

pygame sound with Python 3.5 on Windows

im currently having trouble with the python 3rd party library pygame.
Other posts on stackoverflow didn't help me so i opened a new post.
I want to load a *.mp3 file into the program and play it. My code so far (copied from other posts):
import pygame,time,sys
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print ("Mixer settings", pygame.mixer.get_init())
print ("Mixer channels", pygame.mixer.get_num_channels())
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I see that there is some output, but i cant hear anything on my headphones.
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Thanks
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I wrote this code, where I make 3 buttons and then when I hit 1 button, it plays sound A, I hit button 2, it plays sound B, etc.
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PlaySound("WOOOWoooowooo", SND_ASYNC)
The buttons work and the sounds come out fine, but when I click 1 button and then second button right after that, it stops the first sound and plays the second.
How to make them play at the same time, so that the first still plays while the second one is added to play them togeter. I thought the mistake might be in flags, I tried a few combinations with the "|" operator but the problem still remains :(
Here are the resources:
http://docs.python.org/2/library/winsound.html
I would prefer sticking to the python std library please :)
Thank you!
According to the documentation
You need to do the following when using filenames:
PlaySound("ooooOOooo.wav", SND_ASYNC | SND_FILENAME)
PlaySound("WOOOWoooowooo.wav", SND_ASYNC | SND_FILENAME)
failing to do so is probably causing a None sound call to PlaySound which will cause:
If the sound parameter is None, any currently playing waveform sound is stopped. If the system indicates an error, RuntimeError is raised.
Well, I thought using other modules is bad, but pygame works fine. Sounds are played well and importing this module into the cx_freezer is easy :)

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