How to play an audio file from python terminal

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I am using librosa library to do data analysis on an audio file in .wav format. But it seems librosa can only read or write audio file in form of an array apart from feature extraction. I would also like to play the audio file with my analysis code.

In Ipython notebook, I can use Ipython.display.audio to play audio directly in Ipython ntoebook, but when I convert code to .py, I doesn't work, so I need something that can be used for the same purpose.

Does this answer your question? how to play wav file in python? — Xaser
– Xaser, Commented Apr 28, 2020 at 7:51
It doesn't work for me, as I don't know chunk size for streaming, also I don't want to add any overhead like that. I would to see if there is any library already in place like Ipython.display.audio which can do same task with less overhead. — Deep
– Deep, Commented Apr 28, 2020 at 7:53
The answer presented by @Xaser has actually less "overhead" than the IPython solution. Also, chunk_size you define yourself, it's nothing you have to know in advance. It's just number of bytes that will be read in one go. If by "overhead" you mean "I don't want to type that much", consider e.g. pypi.org/project/playsound — Lukasz Tracewski
– Lukasz Tracewski, Commented Apr 28, 2020 at 12:34

droptop · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-29 15:31:34Z

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You could use pydub to load the audio file (mp3, wav, ogg, raw) and simpleaudio for playback. Just do

sound = pydub.AudioSegment.from_wav('audiofile.wav') playback = simpleaudio.play_buffer( sound.raw_data, num_channels=sound.channels, bytes_per_sample=sound.sample_width, sample_rate=sound.frame_rate )

And voila! you finally got your beats going. To stop just call playback.stop()

answered Apr 29, 2020 at 15:31

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John Scott Stensland Over a year ago

this works however its async meaning code to actually render the audio happens in a new thread (under the covers) and program execution continues along which is fine if above code is in a game or server however in a terminal program you will only hear a tiny pop of audio because the program may have finished before time needed to listen to the audio file ... wonder if it can be told to play sync ... elsewise it will work under this use case by putting a sleep step afterwards

Enrique Avina May 10 at 21:49

@ScottStensland, you can use wait_done to wait synchronously.

Ahmed · Accepted Answer · 2021-12-05 00:47:28Z

If you want to use a blacking mode where the execution will wait until the streaming is finished you can use pyaudio blocking mode full documentation

example:

"""PyAudio Example: Play a wave file.""" import pyaudio import wave import sys CHUNK = 1024 if len(sys.argv) < 2: print("Plays a wave file.\n\nUsage: %s filename.wav" % sys.argv[0]) sys.exit(-1) wf = wave.open(sys.argv[1], 'rb') # instantiate PyAudio (1) p = pyaudio.PyAudio() # open stream (2) stream = p.open(format=p.get_format_from_width(wf.getsampwidth()), channels=wf.getnchannels(), rate=wf.getframerate(), output=True) # read data data = wf.readframes(CHUNK) # play stream (3) while len(data) > 0: stream.write(data) data = wf.readframes(CHUNK) # stop stream (4) stream.stop_stream() stream.close() # close PyAudio (5) p.terminate()

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