Play audio with Python

Question

How can I play audio  it would be like a 1 second sound  from a Python script   It would be best if it was platform independent  but firstly it needs to work on a Mac   I know I could just execute the afplay file mp3 command from within Python  but is it possible to do it in raw Python  I would also be better if it didn t rely on external libraries

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Try PySoundCard which uses PortAudio for playback which is available on many platforms. In addition, it recognizes "professional" sound devices with lots of channels.

Here a small example from the Readme:

from pysoundcard import Stream

"""Loop back five seconds of audio data."""

fs = 44100
blocksize = 16
s = Stream(samplerate=fs, blocksize=blocksize)
s.start()
for n in range(int(fs*5/blocksize)):
    s.write(s.read(blocksize))
s.stop()

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Try sounddevice  If you don t have the module enter  pip install sounddevice in your terminal    Then in your preferred Python script  I use Juypter   enter   import sounddevice as sd   sd play audio  sr  will play what you want through Python  The best way to get the audio and samplerate you want is with the librosa module  Enter this in terminal if you don t have the librosa module   pip install librosa  audio  sr   librosa load  wave file wav     Whatever wav file you want to play  just make sure it s in the same directory as your Python script  This should allow you to play your desired wav file through Python  Cheers  Charlie   P S    Once audio is a  librosa  data object  Python sees it as a numpy array  As an experiment  try playing a long  try 20 000 data points  thing of a random numpy array  Python should play it as white noise  The sounddevice module plays numpy arrays and lists as well

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Your best bet is probably to use pygame SDL  It s an external library  but it has great support across platforms   pygame mixer init   pygame mixer music load  file mp3   pygame mixer music play     You can find more specific documentation about the audio mixer support in the pygame mixer music documentation

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If you re on OSX  you can use the  os  module or  subprocess  etc  to call the OSX  play  command   From the OSX shell  it looks like   play  bah wav   It starts to play in about a half-second on my machine

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Your best bet is probably to use pygame SDL  It s an external library  but it has great support across platforms   pygame mixer init   pygame mixer music load  file mp3   pygame mixer music play     You can find more specific documentation about the audio mixer support in the pygame mixer music documentation

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Sorry for the late reply  but I think this is a good place to advertise my library      AFAIK  the standard library has only one module for playing audio  ossaudiodev  Sadly  this only works on Linux and FreeBSD   UPDATE  There is also winsound  but obviously this is also platform-specific   For something more platform-independent  you ll need to use an external library   My recommendation is the sounddevice module  but beware  I m the author    The package includes the pre-compiled PortAudio library for Mac OS X and Windows  and can be easily installed with   pip install sounddevice --user   It can play back sound from NumPy arrays  but it can also use plain Python buffers  if NumPy is not available    To play back a NumPy array  that s all you need  assuming that the audio data has a sampling frequency of 44100 Hz    import sounddevice as sd sd play myarray  44100    For more details  have a look at the documentation   It cannot read write sound files  you ll need a separate library for that

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You can find information about Python audio here  http   wiki python org moin Audio   It doesn t look like it can play  mp3 files without external libraries  You could either convert your  mp3 file to a  wav or other format  or use a library like PyMedia

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To play a notification sound using python  call a music player  such as vlc  VLC prompted me to use its commandline version  cvlc  instead   from subprocess import call call   cvlc    --play-and-exit    myNotificationTone mp3      It requires vlc to be preinstalled on the device  Tested on Linux Ubuntu 16 04 LTS   Running Python 3 5

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You can find information about Python audio here  http   wiki python org moin Audio   It doesn t look like it can play  mp3 files without external libraries  You could either convert your  mp3 file to a  wav or other format  or use a library like PyMedia

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Install playsound package using    pip install playsound   Usage   from playsound import playsound playsound  file location audio p3

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Your best bet is probably to use pygame SDL  It s an external library  but it has great support across platforms   pygame mixer init   pygame mixer music load  file mp3   pygame mixer music play     You can find more specific documentation about the audio mixer support in the pygame mixer music documentation

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Install playsound package using    pip install playsound   Usage   from playsound import playsound playsound  file location audio p3

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Try playsound which is a Pure Python  cross platform  single function module with no dependencies for playing sounds   Install via pip     pip install playsound   Once you ve installed  you can use it like this   from playsound import playsound playsound   path to a sound file you want to play mp3

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To play a notification sound using python  call a music player  such as vlc  VLC prompted me to use its commandline version  cvlc  instead   from subprocess import call call   cvlc    --play-and-exit    myNotificationTone mp3      It requires vlc to be preinstalled on the device  Tested on Linux Ubuntu 16 04 LTS   Running Python 3 5

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Simply You can do it with the help of cvlc- I did it in this way   import os os popen2  cvlc  home maulo selfProject task mp3 --play-and-exit      home maulo selfProject task mp3  This is the location of my mp3 file  with the help of  --play-and-exit  you will be  able to play again the sound without ending the vlc process

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Simply You can do it with the help of cvlc- I did it in this way   import os os popen2  cvlc  home maulo selfProject task mp3 --play-and-exit      home maulo selfProject task mp3  This is the location of my mp3 file  with the help of  --play-and-exit  you will be  able to play again the sound without ending the vlc process

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Try PySoundCard which uses PortAudio for playback which is available on many platforms. In addition, it recognizes "professional" sound devices with lots of channels.

Here a small example from the Readme:

from pysoundcard import Stream

"""Loop back five seconds of audio data."""

fs = 44100
blocksize = 16
s = Stream(samplerate=fs, blocksize=blocksize)
s.start()
for n in range(int(fs*5/blocksize)):
    s.write(s.read(blocksize))
s.stop()

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For those who use Linux and the other packages haven t worked on MP3 files  audioplayer worked fine for me  https   pypi org project audioplayer  from audioplayer import AudioPlayer lt br gt  AudioPlayer  quot path to somemusic mp3 quot   play block True

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In a Colab notebook you can do   from IPython display import Audio Audio waveform  Rate 16000

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Mac OS I tried a lot of codes but just this works on me   import pygame import time pygame mixer init   pygame init   pygame mixer music load  fire alarm sound mp3    On my project folder  i   0 while i lt 10      pygame mixer music play loops 10  start 0 0      time sleep 10  to protect from closing      pygame mixer music set volume 10      i   i   1

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For those who use Linux and the other packages haven t worked on MP3 files  audioplayer worked fine for me  https   pypi org project audioplayer  from audioplayer import AudioPlayer lt br gt  AudioPlayer  quot path to somemusic mp3 quot   play block True

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Mac OS I tried a lot of codes but just this works on me   import pygame import time pygame mixer init   pygame init   pygame mixer music load  fire alarm sound mp3    On my project folder  i   0 while i lt 10      pygame mixer music play loops 10  start 0 0      time sleep 10  to protect from closing      pygame mixer music set volume 10      i   i   1

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It s Simple  I did it this way  For a wav file from IPython display import Audio from scipy io wavfile import read  fs  data   read  StarWars60 wav   mmap True     fs - sampling frequency data   data reshape -1  1  Audio data   data    0   rate   fs   For mp3 file import IPython display import Audio  Audio  audio file name mp3

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It is possible to play audio in OS X without any 3rd party libraries using an analogue of the following code  The raw audio data can be input with wave wave writeframes  This code extracts 4 seconds of audio from the input file   import wave import io from AppKit import NSSound   wave output   io BytesIO   wave shell   wave open wave output  mode  wb   file path    SINE WAV  input audio   wave open file path  input audio frames   input audio readframes input audio getnframes     wave shell setnchannels input audio getnchannels    wave shell setsampwidth input audio getsampwidth    wave shell setframerate input audio getframerate     seconds multiplier   input audio getnchannels     input audio getsampwidth     input audio getframerate    wave shell writeframes input audio frames second multiplier second multiplier 5    wave shell close    wave output seek 0  wave data   wave output read   audio stream   NSSound alloc   audio stream initWithData  wave data  audio stream play

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You can find information about Python audio here  http   wiki python org moin Audio   It doesn t look like it can play  mp3 files without external libraries  You could either convert your  mp3 file to a  wav or other format  or use a library like PyMedia

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This is the easiest  amp  best iv e found  It supports Linux pulseaudio  Mac coreaudio  and Windows WASAPI   import soundfile as sf import soundcard as sc  default speaker   sc default speaker   samples  samplerate   sf read  bell wav    default speaker play samples  samplerate samplerate    See https   github com bastibe PySoundFile and https   github com bastibe SoundCard for tons of other super-useful features

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It s Simple  I did it this way  For a wav file from IPython display import Audio from scipy io wavfile import read  fs  data   read  StarWars60 wav   mmap True     fs - sampling frequency data   data reshape -1  1  Audio data   data    0   rate   fs   For mp3 file import IPython display import Audio  Audio  audio file name mp3

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Pypi has a list of modules for python in music  My favorite would be jython because it has more resources and libraries for music  As example of of code to play a single note from the textbook     playNote py    Demonstrates how to play a single note   from music import       import music library note   Note C4  HN      create a middle C half note  Play midi note          and play it

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You can see this  http   www speech kth se snack   s   Sound    s read  sound wav    s play

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Aaron s answer appears to be about 10x more complicated than necessary  Just do this if you only need an answer that works on OS X   from AppKit import NSSound  sound   NSSound alloc   sound initWithContentsOfFile byReference    path to file wav   True  sound play     One thing    this returns immediately  So you might want to also do this  if you want the call to block until the sound finishes playing   from time import sleep  sleep sound duration      Edit  I took this function and combined it with variants for Windows and Linux  The result is a pure python  cross platform module with no dependencies called playsound  I ve uploaded it to pypi   pip install playsound   Then run it like this   from playsound import playsound playsound   path to file wav   block   False    MP3 files also work on OS X  WAV should work on all platforms  I don t know what other combinations of platform file format do or don t work - I haven t tried them yet

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If you re on OSX  you can use the  os  module or  subprocess  etc  to call the OSX  play  command   From the OSX shell  it looks like   play  bah wav   It starts to play in about a half-second on my machine

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This is the easiest  amp  best iv e found  It supports Linux pulseaudio  Mac coreaudio  and Windows WASAPI   import soundfile as sf import soundcard as sc  default speaker   sc default speaker   samples  samplerate   sf read  bell wav    default speaker play samples  samplerate samplerate    See https   github com bastibe PySoundFile and https   github com bastibe SoundCard for tons of other super-useful features

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You can see this  http   www speech kth se snack   s   Sound    s read  sound wav    s play

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Take a look at Simpleaudio  which is a relatively recent and lightweight library for this purpose    gt  pip install simpleaudio   Then   import simpleaudio as sa  wave obj   sa WaveObject from wave file  path to file wav   play obj   wave obj play   play obj wait done     Make sure to use uncompressed 16 bit PCM files

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You can find information about Python audio here  http   wiki python org moin Audio   It doesn t look like it can play  mp3 files without external libraries  You could either convert your  mp3 file to a  wav or other format  or use a library like PyMedia

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Pypi has a list of modules for python in music  My favorite would be jython because it has more resources and libraries for music  As example of of code to play a single note from the textbook     playNote py    Demonstrates how to play a single note   from music import       import music library note   Note C4  HN      create a middle C half note  Play midi note          and play it

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I recently made my Music Player support all audio files locally  I did this by figuring out a way to use the vlc python module and also the VLC dll files  You can check it out  https   github com elibroftw music-caster blob master audio player py

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Try playsound which is a Pure Python  cross platform  single function module with no dependencies for playing sounds   Install via pip     pip install playsound   Once you ve installed  you can use it like this   from playsound import playsound playsound   path to a sound file you want to play mp3

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Also on OSX - from SO  using OSX s afplay command   import subprocess subprocess call   afplay    path to audio file      UPDATE  All this does is specify how to do what the OP wanted to avoid doing in the first place  I guess I posted this here because what OP wanted to avoid was the info I was looking for  Whoops

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Your best bet is probably to use pygame SDL  It s an external library  but it has great support across platforms   pygame mixer init   pygame mixer music load  file mp3   pygame mixer music play     You can find more specific documentation about the audio mixer support in the pygame mixer music documentation

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It is possible to play audio in OS X without any 3rd party libraries using an analogue of the following code  The raw audio data can be input with wave wave writeframes  This code extracts 4 seconds of audio from the input file   import wave import io from AppKit import NSSound   wave output   io BytesIO   wave shell   wave open wave output  mode  wb   file path    SINE WAV  input audio   wave open file path  input audio frames   input audio readframes input audio getnframes     wave shell setnchannels input audio getnchannels    wave shell setsampwidth input audio getsampwidth    wave shell setframerate input audio getframerate     seconds multiplier   input audio getnchannels     input audio getsampwidth     input audio getframerate    wave shell writeframes input audio frames second multiplier second multiplier 5    wave shell close    wave output seek 0  wave data   wave output read   audio stream   NSSound alloc   audio stream initWithData  wave data  audio stream play

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In pydub we ve recently opted to use ffplay  via subprocess  from the ffmpeg suite of tools  which internally uses SDL   It works for our purposes     mainly just making it easier to test the results of pydub code in interactive mode     but it has it s downsides  like causing a new program to appear in the dock on mac   I ve linked the implementation above  but a simplified version follows   import subprocess  def play audio file path       subprocess call   ffplay    -nodisp    -autoexit   audio file path     The -nodisp flag stops ffplay from showing a new window  and the -autoexit flag causes ffplay to exit and return a status code when the audio file is done playing   edit  pydub now uses pyaudio for playback when it s installed and falls back to ffplay to avoid the downsides I mentioned  The link above shows that implementation as well

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I recently made my Music Player support all audio files locally  I did this by figuring out a way to use the vlc python module and also the VLC dll files  You can check it out  https   github com elibroftw music-caster blob master audio player py

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Put this at the top of your python script you are writing   import subprocess   If the wav file IS in the directory of the python script   f      mySound wav  subprocess Popen   aplay   -q  f    If the wav file IS NOT in the directory of the python script   f    mySound wav  subprocess Popen   aplay   -q    wav     f    If you want to learn more about aplay   man aplay

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In a Colab notebook you can do   from IPython display import Audio Audio waveform  Rate 16000

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Also on OSX - from SO  using OSX s afplay command   import subprocess subprocess call   afplay    path to audio file      UPDATE  All this does is specify how to do what the OP wanted to avoid doing in the first place  I guess I posted this here because what OP wanted to avoid was the info I was looking for  Whoops

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In pydub we ve recently opted to use ffplay  via subprocess  from the ffmpeg suite of tools  which internally uses SDL   It works for our purposes     mainly just making it easier to test the results of pydub code in interactive mode     but it has it s downsides  like causing a new program to appear in the dock on mac   I ve linked the implementation above  but a simplified version follows   import subprocess  def play audio file path       subprocess call   ffplay    -nodisp    -autoexit   audio file path     The -nodisp flag stops ffplay from showing a new window  and the -autoexit flag causes ffplay to exit and return a status code when the audio file is done playing   edit  pydub now uses pyaudio for playback when it s installed and falls back to ffplay to avoid the downsides I mentioned  The link above shows that implementation as well

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Try sounddevice  If you don t have the module enter  pip install sounddevice in your terminal    Then in your preferred Python script  I use Juypter   enter   import sounddevice as sd   sd play audio  sr  will play what you want through Python  The best way to get the audio and samplerate you want is with the librosa module  Enter this in terminal if you don t have the librosa module   pip install librosa  audio  sr   librosa load  wave file wav     Whatever wav file you want to play  just make sure it s in the same directory as your Python script  This should allow you to play your desired wav file through Python  Cheers  Charlie   P S    Once audio is a  librosa  data object  Python sees it as a numpy array  As an experiment  try playing a long  try 20 000 data points  thing of a random numpy array  Python should play it as white noise  The sounddevice module plays numpy arrays and lists as well

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Aaron s answer appears to be about 10x more complicated than necessary  Just do this if you only need an answer that works on OS X   from AppKit import NSSound  sound   NSSound alloc   sound initWithContentsOfFile byReference    path to file wav   True  sound play     One thing    this returns immediately  So you might want to also do this  if you want the call to block until the sound finishes playing   from time import sleep  sleep sound duration      Edit  I took this function and combined it with variants for Windows and Linux  The result is a pure python  cross platform module with no dependencies called playsound  I ve uploaded it to pypi   pip install playsound   Then run it like this   from playsound import playsound playsound   path to file wav   block   False    MP3 files also work on OS X  WAV should work on all platforms  I don t know what other combinations of platform file format do or don t work - I haven t tried them yet

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Put this at the top of your python script you are writing   import subprocess   If the wav file IS in the directory of the python script   f      mySound wav  subprocess Popen   aplay   -q  f    If the wav file IS NOT in the directory of the python script   f    mySound wav  subprocess Popen   aplay   -q    wav     f    If you want to learn more about aplay   man aplay

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Take a look at Simpleaudio  which is a relatively recent and lightweight library for this purpose    gt  pip install simpleaudio   Then   import simpleaudio as sa  wave obj   sa WaveObject from wave file  path to file wav   play obj   wave obj play   play obj wait done     Make sure to use uncompressed 16 bit PCM files

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Sorry for the late reply  but I think this is a good place to advertise my library      AFAIK  the standard library has only one module for playing audio  ossaudiodev  Sadly  this only works on Linux and FreeBSD   UPDATE  There is also winsound  but obviously this is also platform-specific   For something more platform-independent  you ll need to use an external library   My recommendation is the sounddevice module  but beware  I m the author    The package includes the pre-compiled PortAudio library for Mac OS X and Windows  and can be easily installed with   pip install sounddevice --user   It can play back sound from NumPy arrays  but it can also use plain Python buffers  if NumPy is not available    To play back a NumPy array  that s all you need  assuming that the audio data has a sampling frequency of 44100 Hz    import sounddevice as sd sd play myarray  44100    For more details  have a look at the documentation   It cannot read write sound files  you ll need a separate library for that

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