mp3play

mp3play is a Python package that provides a simple interface for playing music from an MP3 file. No other modules or installations are required -- it Just Works. It's very easy to use within a program that needs to play all or part of an MP3 without opening an external player.

It is available on PyPI at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mp3play/ .

Questions? You can contact Michael Gundlach, the developer, at gundlach at gmail. Or, just file a bug under "Issues" above.

Requirements:

Windows XP at the moment, but the goal is to make cross-platform. I'd love patches that made this run seamlessly under Linux and Mac: please send in a patch!

Installation:

Type easy_install mp3play at the Windows command prompt. (If that doesn't work, download and run this Python script to install easy_install, then try again from C:\<Your python directory>\Scripts\ .)

Example code

import mp3play

filename = r'C:\Documents and Settings\Michael\Desktop\music.mp3'
mp3 = mp3play.load(filename)

mp3.play()

# Let it play for up to 30 seconds, then stop it.
import time
time.sleep(min(30, mp3.seconds()))
mp3.stop()

More complex examples are available here.

Thanks

To Michel Claveau for his original code on which the Windows guts of mp3play are based.