Can use python to play MP3 file?

Ricky

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Feb 28, 2002, 11:23:01 AM2/28/02

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I hear that PHP can online play MP3 file. Is there any method that can make
me play MP3 by using Python CGI?

Thanks for any reply!

Sean 'Shaleh' Perry

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Feb 28, 2002, 11:45:32 AM2/28/02

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It does not play them, it sends them over the network so that a program on a
user's machine may play them. Most decent mp3 players allow you to connect to
a streaming server (as they are called) and play the songs as they are
transferred. Gives an affect like listening to the radio.

Gerhard Häring

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Feb 28, 2002, 12:04:40 PM2/28/02

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Do you want to play the MP3 file on the server, like a jukebox. Or do
you want to stream MP3 files back to the client computer?

(Of course you can do both with Python)

Gerhard

Tim Hammerquist

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Feb 28, 2002, 5:58:08 PM2/28/02

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Ricky <stor...@sina.com> graced us by uttering:

> I hear that PHP can online play MP3 file. Is there any method that
> can make me play MP3 by using Python CGI?

If you mean an MP3 stream server written in Python, try edna
<http://edna.sf.net/>. It will serve MP3s in a stream to the client
computer. (NB: it's up to the client to "play" the MP3, often through
MIME associations in the browser.)

If you mean you want an MP3 player written in Python, well, I don't
suggest it. Processing MP3 data is very processor intensive and is
often thought best accomplished with a compiled C program. However,
cymbaline <http://www.silmarill.org/cymbaline/> is a Python frontend
to the (very pervasive) mpg123 MP3 player.

You don't mention which OS, so I should mention, this is from a linux
perspective. edna might very well work on Windows.

HTH
Tim Hammerquist
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Tim H

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Feb 28, 2002, 6:52:24 PM2/28/02

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"Gerhard Häring" <ger...@bigfoot.de> wrote in message
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Do you have examples, links, hints to doing each with python?

Thanks,
Tim

Ricky

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Mar 1, 2002, 1:04:48 AM3/1/02

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Thank you for you all! I means I want to play a MP3 stream using a local MP3
player, while, I'd like to play with transfer stream not download the whole
file to my hard disk and play it.

now, what shall I do? download a special application or use a special
proctor which some thing like http:// news://?

Thank you!
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Gerhard Häring

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Mar 1, 2002, 9:04:53 PM3/1/02

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Le 28/02/02 à 16:52, Tim H écrivit:

> "Gerhard Häring" <ger...@bigfoot.de> wrote:
> > Ricky wrote:
> > > I hear that PHP can online play MP3 file. Is there any method that
> > > can make me play MP3 by using Python CGI?
> > >
> > > Thanks for any reply!
> >
> > Do you want to play the MP3 file on the server, like a jukebox. Or do
> > you want to stream MP3 files back to the client computer?
> >
> > (Of course you can do both with Python)
> >
> > Gerhard
>
> Do you have examples, links, hints to doing each with python?

Playing an MP3 file using pygame (http://www.pygame.org/):

import pygame.mixer as mixer

mixer.init(44100)
mixer.music.load("White Bird.mp3")
mixer.music.play()
mixer.music.get_busy()

print "Press enter to quit."
raw_input()

OTOH streaming MP3 files from the server to the client has IMHO little
to do with Python, it's more of a HTTP thing. As long as you've set the
correct content type and played the right tricks with HTML, it should
just work. FWIW, there's a streaming MP3 server written in Python at
Sourceforge: http://edna.sourceforge.net/

Gerhard
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