Pygame sound delay - Not related to buffer/sampling

Question

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

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

In my case I found that it's sufficient to just quit the mixer before it's started (even if it's never been started before):

pygame.mixer.quit()
pygame.mixer.init(44100, -16, 2, 1024)