pygame.mixer.Channel.queue does not support pygame.mixer.Sound derivative class instances

[fortwoone]

If you attempt using pygame.mixer.Channel.queue with a Sound derived class, pygame will raise an error as if you didn't pass a Sound-based class at all. Here is the class I use, which netted me the error:

# _SoundBase is an alias for pygame.mixer.Sound
class Sound(_SoundBase):
    def __init__(self, file: str|ndarray|_SoundBase):
        if isinstance(file,str):
            super().__init__(resource_path(file)) # Keep the source directory in case it's needed, and use an absolute path instead of a relative one
            self.dir = file
        elif isinstance(file, _SoundBase):
            super().__init__(file) # Clone the original Sound object
        else:
            super().__init__(array=file)

    volume = property(
        _SoundBase.get_volume, _SoundBase.set_volume, doc="The current sound's volume."
    ) # Access the volume as a property for convenience.

    num_channels = property(_SoundBase.get_num_channels)

    # Convenience conversion methods
    def __bytes__(self):
        return self.get_raw()

    def __len__(self):
        return self.get_length()

    def __copy__(self):
        return self.__class__(self.dir)

    def play(self, loops: int = 0, maxtime: int = 0, fade_ms: int = 0):
        if is_played(self): # is_played is a function checking if a sound is played by at least one channel.
            super().stop() # Stop the previous playback to avoid sound overlapping
        return super().play(loops, maxtime, fade_ms)

    copy = __copy__
    __deepcopy__ = __copy__

And here is the error I got (pygame-ce 2.3.2 (SDL 2.26.5, Python 3.12.0)):

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\XXXXXXX\Documents\Python\Oracle-Project\testEngine.py", line 1733, in <module>
    get_channel(wooshpart1).queue(wooshpart2) # wooshpart1 and wooshpart2 are both instances of Sound (the derived class)
TypeError: The argument must be an instance of Sound

Line 1070 in src_c/mixer.c reveals Channel.queue's code uses an exact type check instead of the usual instance verification to block non-sound classes from being queued, like this :

#define pgSound_Check(x) (Py_TYPE(x) == &pgSound_Type) //i.e. type(x) == pygame.mixer.Sound
...
if (!pgSound_Check(sound)) { //Line 1070
        return RAISE(PyExc_TypeError,
                     "The argument must be an instance of Sound");
}