How To Trigger From Python Playing Of A WAV Or MP3 Audio File On A Mac?

I'm looking for an elegant way, without a ton of dependencies as in some of the solutions I googled up. Thanks for any ideas.

Solution 1:

If you want to do away with external dependencies entirely, and are running OS X 10.5+, you can use the included command-line audio player, afplay, along with the subprocess module.

I haven't tested it, but this should work:

import subprocess
audio_file = "/full/path/to/audio.wav"

return_code = subprocess.call(["afplay", audio_file])

Solution 2:

The leanest most portable way I've found to play .mp3 and .wav files is playsound.

import playsound

# wait for the sound to finish playing?
blocking = True

playsound.playsound("yourfile.mp3", block=blocking)