Play mp3 audio file using Python

1. Python module "playsound"

Its a great module to play sound files. Its cross platform that means it works on Windows, Mac as well as Linux.

Refer for more details: https://pypi.org/project/playsound/

Install playsound

pip3 install playsound

2. Code to play mp3 

from playsound import playsound
file = "song.mp3"
playsound(file, True)

3. Dealing with Issues

Issue 1. File load issue

Any space in the absolute path of file will cause issue and will throw IOError.

A simple fix is to replace all the spaces with %20.

from playsound import playsound
file = "<absolute-path>/song.mp3"
file = file.replace(" ", "%20")
playsound(file, True)

Issue 2. No module named 'AppKit' - Mac Issue

To resolve this install PyObjC

pip3 install -U PyObjC