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Ivan Elagin
Ivan Elagin

Reputation: 21

Why do I have "'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xc4 in position 0: invalid continuation byte " problem and how do I solve it?

I am trying to run the simple code, to play the wav sound with playsound (I found this way of sound playing on some website):

from playsound import playsound 

playsound("Piano.wav")

and when I run it, I get error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Programs/Python/Python38/ьгышсф.py", line 3, in <module>
    playsound("Piano.wav")
  File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\site-packages\playsound.py", line 35, in _playsoundWin
    winCommand('open "' + sound + '" alias', alias)
  File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\site-packages\playsound.py", line 30, in winCommand
    '\n    ' + errorBuffer.value.decode())
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xc4 in position 0: invalid continuation byte

Same for mp3 files. And I am using Python 3.8

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5949

Answers (2)

Ryan Z
Ryan Z

Reputation: 1

You usually get this error when an non-UTF-8 character is in your path (like Ü, Ö...). Try to avoid having such characters in the path of your sound file.

Upvotes: 0

NineBerry
NineBerry

Reputation: 28509

The error you get (275 = MCIERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) is that the system cannot find the sound file. You need to specify the complete path to the file, not only the file name:

playsound("C:\\Path\\To\\Piano.wav")

If the sound file is in the same directory or a subdirectory of where the script file is placed, see How to properly determine current script directory? for how to get the path to the script file at runtime.

Upvotes: 2

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