Playing sound in Python

Question

I'm trying to play a .mp3 file.

My code :

import os

os.system("start C:\Users\User\Desktop\Wakeup.mp3")

But, it gives an error like this:

File "C:/Users/User/PycharmProjects/pythonProject/Test.py", line 2
    os.system("start C:\Users\User\Desktop\Wakeup.mp3")
             ^
SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 8-9: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape

with other variants for playing a sound, I'm getting the same error

Thanks for attention

Take a look at this to get more insight into how to use it... https://pythonbasics.org/python-play-sound/ — Joe Ferndz, Feb 24 '21 at 06:34
You might want to check https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20021457/playing-mp3-song-on-python. — Keivan Ipchi Hagh, Feb 24 '21 at 06:37

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 24 '21 at 06:33

You did not escape the backslash character. try this:

os.system("start C:\\Users\\User\\Desktop\\Wakeup.mp3")

Option 2

Use forward slash instead:

os.system("start C:/Users/User/Desktop/Wakeup.mp3")

Option 3

Use "raw" string:

os.system(r"start C:\Users\User\Desktop\Wakeup.mp3")

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 24 '21 at 06:41

0

If you want to play sound. You can do something like this.

from playsound import playsound

playsound("path/name.mp3")

Hope this helps ... :D

answered Feb 24 '21 at 06:41

Karan Owalekar

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