Cropping sound files

[Dieter Vanderelst]

Hello, My previous problem with Winsound has boiled down to a new problem. I have some soundfiles (wav) of which I only need the n first seconds. So, I thought I could crop them using the standard wave-module: This is some of my code:         #I open the wav file and I read the first n frames     f_org = wave.open(file_name, 'r')     frames =  f_org.readframes(f_org.getframerate( )*sec)     #these frames I write to a new file     #the parameters for the new file are the same as for the original file,     #only the number of frames is different     f_new.setparams(pra)     f_new.writeframesraw(frames). This works fine for short files (up to 20 sec). But if I try this with larger files, an later play the new cropped files with windsound, winsound doesn't play the whole new file (although windows media player does so). Does anybody has a piece of code that I can use to crop my files? Because I must be doing something wrong. Thanks, Dieter Graham Fawcett wrote: Dieter Vanderelst wrote: Hello, I'm having a problem with playing WAV files using Winsound. If I use winsound to play a certain WAV files only the first few seconds of the file get played. I think this comes because these files contain some parts of silence. There winsound seems the stop playing the files (windows media player plays the sounds correctly). [snip] Just as a reference, the code I use: winsound.PlaySound("My_wav.wav", winsound.SND_FILENAME) This is totally a guess, but add the following to the end of your test script: import time time.sleep(10) Did the file play for ten seconds longer? I don't know anything about winsound, but I'm guessing that the PlaySound call is non-blocking, and your playback stops because your process is quitting before the sound has played. Graham

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