Re: PyGame: I forgot that one in my list. Someone else tried it and said sound quality for MP3 playback was terrible (didn't verify myself though).
Re: pyglet: thanks for the suggestion. Re: licensing: good point, and so I think that the best solution is... os.startfile('x.mp3'). Thank you, Brian, that's exactly what I needed -- a way to have the system use the default audio player! I do need to stop files, but including a tiny "silence.wav" with my project to "start" seems to do the trick handily :) Thank you all for your advice, and I hope this thread gets found by the next guy who asks this question! Michael PS: The project is a speech-controlled robot that scans a remote music collection, then plays bands/albums/songs on command ('musicbutler' package on pypi). So, while os.startfile() has the side effect of opening my default media player, I don't mind that as this app would be on a machine without a monitor... On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Brian Parma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you don't need to control the playback with your program but just launch > it (in WMP), try os.startfile instead of os.system. > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Vernon Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> As always, remember that mp3 is proprietary, and the owner has shown >> willingness to be nasty about licensing it. Therefore, anything that is >> "easy to install" is possibly illegal and/or will open you to a lawsuit. If >> you are doing new work, better to use ogg. >> >> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 5:53 AM, Sidnei da Silva >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 4:26 AM, Gerdus van Zyl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote: >>> > 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. >>> >>> Maybe PyGame? Same issue re: being easy_install-able though. >>> >>> -- >>> Sidnei da Silva >>> Enfold Systems http://enfoldsystems.com >>> Fax +1 832 201 8856 Office +1 713 942 2377 Ext 214 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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