Python Pydub Permission denied?

Question

When i run this code :

from pydub import AudioSegment
sound = AudioSegment.from_mp3("i.mp3")
sound.export("F:\\bh", format="wav")

A ffmpeg window pops up and i get this error:

Even if i run it with admin privilleges:

Note :
The error occurs on every location that I try to export

same problem, no solution – Macumbaomuerte Jul 13 '17 at 13:53 — Macumbaomuerte, Jul 13 '17 at 13:53
Did you find the solution? @Anonymous – lalithkumar Jan 31 '18 at 06:17 — lalithkumar, Jan 31 '18 at 06:17

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 24 '19 at 03:47

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If you are on Windows, face this problem, and also have issues installing simpleaudio, you can try installing pyaudio instead.

If you are using Anaconda, you can install pyaudio with

conda install -c anaconda pyaudio

For me, simpleaudio on Anaconda is only available for Linux and MacOS and not Windows.

answered Aug 24 '19 at 03:47

Jerry Sun

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`pip install pyaudio` worked for me on windows 11 – Vaibhav Garg Aug 29 '23 at 11:00

score 4 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 04 '21 at 15:42

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See this thread here. They suggest installing simpleaudio (pip install simpleaudio) to resolve this issue. It worked for me.

edited Nov 04 '21 at 15:42

Jondiedoop

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answered Aug 02 '19 at 16:03

FrodmanG

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 31 '22 at 09:10

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I had the same issue but fixed using the GillHawk solution from this thread (same link as Jondiepdoop gave). I added f.close() in the _play_with_ffplay function of the playback.py file :

def _play_with_ffplay(seg):
with NamedTemporaryFile("w+b", suffix=".wav") as f:
    f.close() # close the file stream
    seg.export(f.name, "wav")
    subprocess.call([PLAYER, "-nodisp", "-autoexit", "-hide_banner", f.name])

answered Dec 31 '22 at 09:10

artgue72

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amazing solution. In my case, I also need no the r' before the file path, like sound = AudioSegment.from_file('C:\\temp\\audio1.mp3', format="mp3"). – Mark K Apr 20 '23 at 03:05

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