Examples for playing audio files with different Python media libraries

play.pyaudio.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

"""
PyAudio Example: Play a wave file.

http://people.csail.mit.edu/hubert/pyaudio/

Mac OS X:

  brew install portaudio
  pip install http://people.csail.mit.edu/hubert/pyaudio/packages/pyaudio-0.2.8.tar.gz

"""

import pyaudio
import wave
import sys

CHUNK = 1024

if len(sys.argv) < 2:
    print("Plays a wave file.\n\nUsage: %s filename.wav" % sys.argv[0])
    sys.exit(-1)

wf = wave.open(sys.argv[1], 'rb')

p = pyaudio.PyAudio()

stream = p.open(format=p.get_format_from_width(wf.getsampwidth()),
                channels=wf.getnchannels(),
                rate=wf.getframerate(),
                output=True)

data = wf.readframes(CHUNK)

while data != '':
    stream.write(data)
    data = wf.readframes(CHUNK)

stream.stop_stream()
stream.close()

p.terminate()

play.pyglet.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys
import pyglet

try:
    wavefile = sys.argv[1]
except:
    print("specify wave file!"); sys.exit(2)

player = pyglet.media.Player()
music = pyglet.media.load(wavefile)
player.queue(music)
player.play()
pyglet.app.run()