Play a Sound with Python

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What s the easiest way to play a sound file   wav  in Python  By easiest I mean both most platform independent and requiring the least dependencies  pygame is certainly an option  but it seems overkill for just sound

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The Snack Sound Toolkit can play wav  au and mp3 files     s   Sound    s read  sound wav    s play

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pyMedia s sound example does just that  This should be all you need   import time  wave  pymedia audio sound as sound f  wave open   YOUR FILE NAME    rb    sampleRate  f getframerate   channels  f getnchannels   format  sound AFMT S16 LE snd  sound Output  sampleRate  channels  format   s  f readframes  300000   snd play  s

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For Windows  you can use winsound  It s built in  import winsound  winsound PlaySound  sound wav   winsound SND FILENAME    You should be able to use ossaudiodev for linux   from wave import open as waveOpen from ossaudiodev import open as ossOpen s   waveOpen  tada wav   rb    nc sw fr nf comptype  compname    s getparams    dsp   ossOpen   dev dsp   w   try    from ossaudiodev import AFMT S16 NE except ImportError    from sys import byteorder   if byteorder     little       AFMT S16 NE   ossaudiodev AFMT S16 LE   else      AFMT S16 NE   ossaudiodev AFMT S16 BE dsp setparameters AFMT S16 NE  nc  fr  data   s readframes nf  s close   dsp write data  dsp close      Credit for ossaudiodev  Bill Dandreta http   mail python org pipermail python-list 2004-October 288905 html

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I just released a simple python wrapper around sox that will play a sound with Python   It s very easy to install as you need Python 2 6 or greater  sox  easy to get binaries for most architectures  and the wrapper   https   github com standarddeviant sound4python     If you don t have sox  go here  http   sourceforge net projects sox files sox   You would play audio with it by   from sound4python import sound import random a      for idx in xrange 1 16000       a append random randint -16384 16384   sound a    Keep in mind  the only parts actually involved in playing audio are just these   from sound4python import sound     sound a

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I like pygame  and the command below should work   pygame init   pygame mixer Sound  sound wav   play     but it doesn t on either of my computers  and there is limited help on the subject out there  edit  I figured out why the pygame sound isn t working for me  it s not loading most sounds correctly  the  length  attribute is  0 0002 when I load them  maybe loading them using something other than mygame will get it morking more generally   with pyglet I m getting a resource not found error Using the above example  wigh both relative and full paths to the files   using pyglet media load   instead of pyglet resource media   lets me load the files   but sound play   only plays the first fraction of a second of the file  unless I run pyglet app run   which blocks everything else

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Definitely use Pyglet for this  It s kind of a large package  but it is pure python with no extension modules  That will definitely be the easiest for deployment  It s also got great format and codec support   import pyglet  music   pyglet resource media  music mp3   music play    pyglet app run

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I like pygame  and the command below should work   pygame init   pygame mixer Sound  sound wav   play     but it doesn t on either of my computers  and there is limited help on the subject out there  edit  I figured out why the pygame sound isn t working for me  it s not loading most sounds correctly  the  length  attribute is  0 0002 when I load them  maybe loading them using something other than mygame will get it morking more generally   with pyglet I m getting a resource not found error Using the above example  wigh both relative and full paths to the files   using pyglet media load   instead of pyglet resource media   lets me load the files   but sound play   only plays the first fraction of a second of the file  unless I run pyglet app run   which blocks everything else

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Definitely use Pyglet for this  It s kind of a large package  but it is pure python with no extension modules  That will definitely be the easiest for deployment  It s also got great format and codec support   import pyglet  music   pyglet resource media  music mp3   music play    pyglet app run

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pyMedia s sound example does just that  This should be all you need   import time  wave  pymedia audio sound as sound f  wave open   YOUR FILE NAME    rb    sampleRate  f getframerate   channels  f getnchannels   format  sound AFMT S16 LE snd  sound Output  sampleRate  channels  format   s  f readframes  300000   snd play  s

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wxPython has support for playing wav files on Windows and Unix - I am not sure if this includes Macs   However it only support wav files as far as I can tell - it does not support other common formats such as mp3 or ogg

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pyMedia s sound example does just that  This should be all you need   import time  wave  pymedia audio sound as sound f  wave open   YOUR FILE NAME    rb    sampleRate  f getframerate   channels  f getnchannels   format  sound AFMT S16 LE snd  sound Output  sampleRate  channels  format   s  f readframes  300000   snd play  s

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Definitely use Pyglet for this  It s kind of a large package  but it is pure python with no extension modules  That will definitely be the easiest for deployment  It s also got great format and codec support   import pyglet  music   pyglet resource media  music mp3   music play    pyglet app run

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After the play   command add a delay of say 10 secs or so  it ll work  import pygame  import time  pygame init    pygame mixer music load  test wav    pygame mixer music play    time sleep 10    This also plays  mp3 files

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This seems ridiculous and far fetched but you could always use Windows  or whatever OS you prefer  to manage the sound for you   import os os system  start C  thepathyouwant file     Simple  no extensions  somewhat slow and junky  but working

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For Windows  you can use winsound  It s built in  import winsound  winsound PlaySound  sound wav   winsound SND FILENAME    You should be able to use ossaudiodev for linux   from wave import open as waveOpen from ossaudiodev import open as ossOpen s   waveOpen  tada wav   rb    nc sw fr nf comptype  compname    s getparams    dsp   ossOpen   dev dsp   w   try    from ossaudiodev import AFMT S16 NE except ImportError    from sys import byteorder   if byteorder     little       AFMT S16 NE   ossaudiodev AFMT S16 LE   else      AFMT S16 NE   ossaudiodev AFMT S16 BE dsp setparameters AFMT S16 NE  nc  fr  data   s readframes nf  s close   dsp write data  dsp close      Credit for ossaudiodev  Bill Dandreta http   mail python org pipermail python-list 2004-October 288905 html

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For Linux user  if low level pcm data manipulation is needed  try alsaaudio module  There is a playwav py example inside the package too

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Definitely use Pyglet for this  It s kind of a large package  but it is pure python with no extension modules  That will definitely be the easiest for deployment  It s also got great format and codec support   import pyglet  music   pyglet resource media  music mp3   music play    pyglet app run

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I just released a simple python wrapper around sox that will play a sound with Python   It s very easy to install as you need Python 2 6 or greater  sox  easy to get binaries for most architectures  and the wrapper   https   github com standarddeviant sound4python     If you don t have sox  go here  http   sourceforge net projects sox files sox   You would play audio with it by   from sound4python import sound import random a      for idx in xrange 1 16000       a append random randint -16384 16384   sound a    Keep in mind  the only parts actually involved in playing audio are just these   from sound4python import sound     sound a

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For Linux user  if low level pcm data manipulation is needed  try alsaaudio module  There is a playwav py example inside the package too

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This seems ridiculous and far fetched but you could always use Windows  or whatever OS you prefer  to manage the sound for you   import os os system  start C  thepathyouwant file     Simple  no extensions  somewhat slow and junky  but working

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For Windows  you can use winsound  It s built in  import winsound  winsound PlaySound  sound wav   winsound SND FILENAME    You should be able to use ossaudiodev for linux   from wave import open as waveOpen from ossaudiodev import open as ossOpen s   waveOpen  tada wav   rb    nc sw fr nf comptype  compname    s getparams    dsp   ossOpen   dev dsp   w   try    from ossaudiodev import AFMT S16 NE except ImportError    from sys import byteorder   if byteorder     little       AFMT S16 NE   ossaudiodev AFMT S16 LE   else      AFMT S16 NE   ossaudiodev AFMT S16 BE dsp setparameters AFMT S16 NE  nc  fr  data   s readframes nf  s close   dsp write data  dsp close      Credit for ossaudiodev  Bill Dandreta http   mail python org pipermail python-list 2004-October 288905 html

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After the play   command add a delay of say 10 secs or so  it ll work  import pygame  import time  pygame init    pygame mixer music load  test wav    pygame mixer music play    time sleep 10    This also plays  mp3 files

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For Windows  you can use winsound  It s built in  import winsound  winsound PlaySound  sound wav   winsound SND FILENAME    You should be able to use ossaudiodev for linux   from wave import open as waveOpen from ossaudiodev import open as ossOpen s   waveOpen  tada wav   rb    nc sw fr nf comptype  compname    s getparams    dsp   ossOpen   dev dsp   w   try    from ossaudiodev import AFMT S16 NE except ImportError    from sys import byteorder   if byteorder     little       AFMT S16 NE   ossaudiodev AFMT S16 LE   else      AFMT S16 NE   ossaudiodev AFMT S16 BE dsp setparameters AFMT S16 NE  nc  fr  data   s readframes nf  s close   dsp write data  dsp close      Credit for ossaudiodev  Bill Dandreta http   mail python org pipermail python-list 2004-October 288905 html

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pyMedia s sound example does just that  This should be all you need   import time  wave  pymedia audio sound as sound f  wave open   YOUR FILE NAME    rb    sampleRate  f getframerate   channels  f getnchannels   format  sound AFMT S16 LE snd  sound Output  sampleRate  channels  format   s  f readframes  300000   snd play  s

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wxPython has support for playing wav files on Windows and Unix - I am not sure if this includes Macs   However it only support wav files as far as I can tell - it does not support other common formats such as mp3 or ogg

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