Sound Operators

bpy.ops.sound.bake_animation()

Updates the audio animation cache so that it’s up to date

bpy.ops.sound.mixdown(filepath="", check_existing=True, filter_blender=False, filter_image=False, filter_movie=False, filter_python=False, filter_font=False, filter_sound=True, filter_text=False, filter_btx=False, filter_collada=False, filter_folder=True, filemode=9, accuracy=1024, container='FLAC', codec='FLAC', format='S16', bitrate=192)

Mixes the scene’s audio to a sound file

Parameters:

• filepath (string, (optional)) – File Path, Path to file
• check_existing (boolean, (optional)) – Check Existing, Check and warn on overwriting existing files
• filter_blender (boolean, (optional)) – Filter .blend files
• filter_image (boolean, (optional)) – Filter image files
• filter_movie (boolean, (optional)) – Filter movie files
• filter_python (boolean, (optional)) – Filter python files
• filter_font (boolean, (optional)) – Filter font files
• filter_sound (boolean, (optional)) – Filter sound files
• filter_text (boolean, (optional)) – Filter text files
• filter_btx (boolean, (optional)) – Filter btx files
• filter_collada (boolean, (optional)) – Filter COLLADA files
• filter_folder (boolean, (optional)) – Filter folders
• filemode (int in [1, 9], (optional)) – File Browser Mode, The setting for the file browser mode to load a .blend file, a library or a special file
• accuracy (int in [1, inf], (optional)) – Accuracy, Sample accuracy. Important for animation data. The lower the value, the more accurate.
• container (enum in [‘FLAC’, ‘OGG’, ‘WAV’], (optional)) –

  Container, File format

  • FLAC flac, Free Lossless Audio Codec.
  • OGG ogg, Xiph.Org Ogg Container.
  • WAV wav, Waveform Audio File Format.
• codec (enum in [‘FLAC’, ‘PCM’, ‘VORBIS’], (optional)) –

  Codec, Audio Codec

  • FLAC FLAC, Free Lossless Audio Codec.
  • PCM PCM, Pulse Code Modulation (RAW).
  • VORBIS Vorbis, Xiph.Org Vorbis Codec.
• format (enum in [‘U8’, ‘S16’, ‘S24’, ‘S32’, ‘F32’, ‘F64’], (optional)) –

  Format, Sample format

  • U8 U8, 8 bit unsigned.
  • S16 S16, 16 bit signed.
  • S24 S24, 24 bit signed.
  • S32 S32, 32 bit signed.
  • F32 F32, 32 bit floating point.
  • F64 F64, 64 bit floating point.
• bitrate (int in [32, 512], (optional)) – Bitrate, Bitrate in kbit/s

bpy.ops.sound.open(filepath="", filter_blender=False, filter_image=False, filter_movie=True, filter_python=False, filter_font=False, filter_sound=True, filter_text=False, filter_btx=False, filter_collada=False, filter_folder=True, filemode=9, relative_path=False, cache=False, mono=False)

Load a sound file

Parameters:

• filepath (string, (optional)) – File Path, Path to file
• filter_blender (boolean, (optional)) – Filter .blend files
• filter_image (boolean, (optional)) – Filter image files
• filter_movie (boolean, (optional)) – Filter movie files
• filter_python (boolean, (optional)) – Filter python files
• filter_font (boolean, (optional)) – Filter font files
• filter_sound (boolean, (optional)) – Filter sound files
• filter_text (boolean, (optional)) – Filter text files
• filter_btx (boolean, (optional)) – Filter btx files
• filter_collada (boolean, (optional)) – Filter COLLADA files
• filter_folder (boolean, (optional)) – Filter folders
• filemode (int in [1, 9], (optional)) – File Browser Mode, The setting for the file browser mode to load a .blend file, a library or a special file
• relative_path (boolean, (optional)) – Relative Path, Select the file relative to the blend file
• cache (boolean, (optional)) – Cache, Cache the sound in memory.
• mono (boolean, (optional)) – Mono, Mixdown the sound to mono.

bpy.ops.sound.open_mono(filepath="", filter_blender=False, filter_image=False, filter_movie=True, filter_python=False, filter_font=False, filter_sound=True, filter_text=False, filter_btx=False, filter_collada=False, filter_folder=True, filemode=9, relative_path=False, cache=False, mono=True)

Load a sound file as mono

Parameters:

• filepath (string, (optional)) – File Path, Path to file
• filter_blender (boolean, (optional)) – Filter .blend files
• filter_image (boolean, (optional)) – Filter image files
• filter_movie (boolean, (optional)) – Filter movie files
• filter_python (boolean, (optional)) – Filter python files
• filter_font (boolean, (optional)) – Filter font files
• filter_sound (boolean, (optional)) – Filter sound files
• filter_text (boolean, (optional)) – Filter text files
• filter_btx (boolean, (optional)) – Filter btx files
• filter_collada (boolean, (optional)) – Filter COLLADA files
• filter_folder (boolean, (optional)) – Filter folders
• filemode (int in [1, 9], (optional)) – File Browser Mode, The setting for the file browser mode to load a .blend file, a library or a special file
• relative_path (boolean, (optional)) – Relative Path, Select the file relative to the blend file
• cache (boolean, (optional)) – Cache, Cache the sound in memory.
• mono (boolean, (optional)) – Mono, Mixdown the sound to mono.

bpy.ops.sound.pack()

Pack the sound into the current blend file

bpy.ops.sound.unpack(method='USE_LOCAL', id="")

Unpack the sound to the samples filename

Parameters:

• method (enum in [‘USE_LOCAL’, ‘WRITE_LOCAL’, ‘USE_ORIGINAL’, ‘WRITE_ORIGINAL’], (optional)) – Method, How to unpack.
• id (string, (optional)) – Sound Name, Sound datablock name to unpack.

bpy.ops.sound.update_animation_flags()

Update animation flags