Try pyglet [pyglet.org]. It wraps avbin for mp3,ogg reading and plays using directsound, alsa, etc. Not sure if it could be made easy_installable.
~Gerdus On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Michael Gundlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to play an MP3 from Python 2.5 in Windows, that doesn't > require compiling C first? I'd like to make a package > easy_installable [a different one this time!] that can then play MP3s > without any other fuss. > > I've looked through the python-win32 archives, I've looked on Google, > I've looked on PyPI. > - Using COM to WMPlayer.OCX doesn't work unless you're in PythonWin > or wxPython. > - audiere doesn't have Python 2.5 bindings and I haven't been > successful manipulating the C DLL with ctypes. > - pyMedia requires that the target machine have Visual Studio or > Cygwin installed. > - snack requires Tcl/Tk and others. > - os.system() only manages to open Windows Media Player, along with > a bunch of IE-clickety-click noises, and still won't play the passed > file arg. > - everything else is for Linux! > > The best bet seems to be 2.5 bindings to audiere, but I have no idea > if that's possible. Someone claims to have managed to build 2.4 > bindings for audiere, but the link to the project is now dead. After > the wealth of Batteries Included modules in Python, it was a bit > surprising to find nothing yet that Just Works. > > Suggestions? If nothing else, I'll add to my List Of Projects "write > a cross-platform pymp3"... > > Michael > _______________________________________________ > python-win32 mailing list > python-win32@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 > _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
