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pygame.mixer

Gets the current number of channels available for the mixer. This value can be changed with set_num_channels(). This value defaults to 8 when the mixer is first initialized.

Initializes the mixer module. Usually no arguments will be needed, the defaults are 22050 frequency data in stereo with signed 16bit data. The size argument can be 8 or 16 for unsigned data, or -8 or -16 for signed data. The default buffersize is 1024 samples, sometimes a larger value is required.
 
The stereo argument is either 1 or 2 to represent mono or stereo. Pygame does not support more than 2 channel stereo.
 
On some platforms it is important that the display module is initialized before the audio. (that is, if the display will be initialized at all). You can easily use the pygame.init() function to cleanly initialize everything, but first use the pygame.mixer.pre_init() function to change the default values for this init().

This routine is usefull when you want to customize the sound mixer playback modes. The values you pass will change the default values used by pygame.mixer.init(). This way you can still use the pygame automatic initialization to ensure everything happens in the right order, but set the desired mixer mode.
 
The stereo argument is either 1 or 2 to represent mono or stereo. Pygame does not support more than 2 channel stereo.

Reserves numchan channels. Reserved channels won't be used when a sound is played without using a specific channel object. In otherwords, just calling Sound.play() will not use the reserved channels. They must implicitly be used with Channel.play().