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pdm LVW
pdm LVW

Reputation: 149

Python execute playsound in separate thread

I need to play a sound in my Python program so I used playsound module for that:

def playy():
    playsound('beep.mp3')

How can I modify this to run inside main method as a new thread? I need to run this method inside the main method if a condition is true. When it is false the thread needs to stop.

Upvotes: 8

Views: 8264

Answers (4)

Sadra Sabouri
Sadra Sabouri

Reputation: 309

If you don't want to get confused by threading stuff Nava could be a better option for you. You can just do

from nava import play
play("beep.wav", async_mode=True)

Up until now it supports mp3 only for MacOS (but supports wav for other OSs). You can always convert your mp3 to wav.

Upvotes: 0

Forlanda
Forlanda

Reputation: 81

You may not have to worry about using a thread. You can simply call playsound as follows:

def playy():  
    playsound('beep.mp3', block = False)

This will allow the program to keep running without waiting for the sound play to finish.

Upvotes: 8

Dinari
Dinari

Reputation: 2557

As python multi-threading is not really multi-threading (more on this here), I would suggest using a multi-process for it: 

from multiprocessing import Process

def playy():
    playsound('beep.mp3')


P = Process(name="playsound",target=playy)
P.start() # Inititialize Process

can be terminated at will with P.terminate()

Upvotes: 2

Calvin-Ruiz
Calvin-Ruiz

Reputation: 172

Use threading library :

from threading import Thread
T = Thread(target=playy) # create thread
T.start() # Launch created thread

Upvotes: 5

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