mp3 libs and programs

[Jay]

I'm writing a python script that involves playing mp3 files. The first
approach I had was sending commands to unix command-line programs in
order to play them. I tired mpg123 and moosic, but there was a key
feature to my program's success that's missing. SEEK! I need to be
able to start playing a song at an arbitrary point in the song. I
can't find anything to let me do this. Does anyone have any advice or
has anyone needed something similar?

 

[Harold Fellermann]

hi,

I'm writing a python script that involves playing mp3 files. The first
approach I had was sending commands to unix command-line programs in
order to play them. I tired mpg123 and moosic, but there was a key
feature to my program's success that's missing. SEEK! I need to be
able to start playing a song at an arbitrary point in the song. I
can't find anything to let me do this. Does anyone have any advice or
has anyone needed something similar?

check out pyxmms.

 

[Jay]

That's definately a good choice, but what about mplayer in slave mode?
Can I use that with python? Would that be able to seek?

 

[Jay]

I checked it and I can most definitely do the seeking from the command
line with mplayer. Can I use slave mode with python?

 

[Richard Jones]

I'm writing a python script that involves playing mp3 files.

I've previously successfully used the Python interface for MAD:

http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/

which was trivial to use in combination with libao's python interface (and
throw in ogg.vorbis from xiph.org and you've got a complete player

Also, these days you might want to look into gstreamer. It rocks*, but I've
not personally used it.:

http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/


Richard

*: Anthony Baxter, your friendly neighborhood Python Release Manager, is in
love with it.