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TheOrdinaryDeveloper
TheOrdinaryDeveloper

Reputation: 41

What to do with "Cannot specify extra characters after a string enclosed in quotation marks" error?

I have a piece of code that plays a sound using the playsound module but the file location gives an error:

import playsound

playsound.playsound('C:\\Users\\nc_ma\\Downloads\\Note1.mp3')

error:

Error 305 for command:
    open "C:\Users\nc_ma\Downloads\Note1.mp3"
Cannot specify extra characters after a string enclosed in quotation marks.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3183

Answers (4)

gary sundquist
gary sundquist

Reputation: 46

Playsound is still working in Python version 3.10.11. For my use case the mp3 files were in a different folder under the parent directory of the py file accessing the mp3. I was able to get the mp3 file path by getting the current py file path [os.path.realpath(file)] then getting the parent [..\] then current directory [.\]

playsound(str(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))) + "\\..\\.\\folder\file.mp3")

Specifying the parent then the rest of the path does not work, so you have to specify current path. For example, this does not work:

playsound(str(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))) + "\\..\\folder\file.mp3")

Upvotes: 0

Zachary Vorhies
Zachary Vorhies

Reputation: 541

The python package playsound is effectively broken. I made a replacement here:

https://github.com/zackees/playaudio

Which can be installed via:

pip install playaudio

Keep in mind this is a blocking library. So you'll need to wrap it in a thread if you want to want async behavior.

Upvotes: 0

Anirvana
Anirvana

Reputation: 71

I was having a similar issue of Error 305 . Check your playsound version. There is an issue with version 1.3. Downgrading to version 1.2.2 worked for me.

Follow the below steps:

pip uninstall playsound
pip install playsound==1.2.2

Run the same file again. It should work.

Upvotes: 3

Akitoo
Akitoo

Reputation: 46

I had the same problem and I tried another way: I used os

import os
os.startfile('path\\file.filetype')

and it started working for you:

os.startfile('C:\\Users\\nc_ma\\Downloads\\Note1.mp3')

or

from playsound import playsound
playsound('Path\\File Name.mp3')

Upvotes: 0

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