Frets on Fire (or pygame) doesn't detect sound

I’m using the ALSA driver and sound works on EVERY other program but when I click on frets on fire nothing happens
when running it in terminal this is what I get

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/skyostil/src/cx_Freeze-3.0.3/initscripts/Console.py", line 27, in ?
  File "src/FretsOnFire.py", line 68, in ?
  File "src/GameEngine.py", line 149, in __init__
  File "src/Audio.py", line 49, in open
pygame.error: No available audio device