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Python 3 Script to Build Mini Audio Player to Play Audio Files in Terminal Using audioplayer Library
Jun 3, 2025
Get the full source code of application here:
https://gist.github.com/gauti123456/884ff2dc8b0d97aab80b52606ffab222
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uh hello guys welcome to this video So
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in this video I will show you a Python
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package which allows you to play audio
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files directly in the
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terminal So there is a package here If
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you go to
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the website of Python where you can
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install third party packages just search
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for this package audio player and this
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is actually a crossplatform Python
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module which allows you to play sounds
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files directly in the terminal The
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command is simple Simply install this
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package by executing this command I've
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already installed it So I basically have
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the script here and I will play this
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file here which is
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audio.mpp3 So if I run this Python
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script
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here just wait let me run this script
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here Python app
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py So in this way you can see that the
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audio was playing here You can even
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control the volume as well So volume was
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set to 10% And just press the Q keyword
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to squit the
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application So this is actually the
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module Here you can control the audio
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Let's suppose I change this audio to 80
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So now if you see the volume will be
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increased
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So this is essentially this package here
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Let me show you how to use
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it step by
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step So the full script is given in the
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description of this video So first of
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all you import the time module which is
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a built-in module and also the threading
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module which is a built-in And then we
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import this third party package audio
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player From this we import this audio
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player class And then we also need to
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import the keyboard module which will
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actually
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bind a shortcut key so that when you
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press the key Q keyword the application
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will close For this you just need to
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install this third party module pip
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install keyboard Also install this and
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then we will initialize the audio
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player like this And here you specify
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the path of the audio file So my file is
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output.mpp3 So simply I will provide the
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audio file and then you can actually
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access the details print out the name of
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the file the full file name as well
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alongside with the extension Then you
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can simply control the volume level by
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this property player volume
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Let me set it to 20% And then
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uh that's all that thing I is there Then
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to play the audio we have the play
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button play function And similarly if
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you want to pause it if you want to stop
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it all these functions are
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available And now you can even set a
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keyboard shortcut so that when you press
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the Q
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keyboard Q key on the keyboard the
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application will
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close For this I will just write a
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custom function monitor key press So
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when you press the Q keyboard the
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application will close So here you see
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that we are stopping the player Player
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dots stop whenever user press the Q
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keyword
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So now we simply need to call
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this function that we define right here
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So with the help of threading module
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threading dot thread target is monitor
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key press and then we start this
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thread and then we actually join
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this So close the player after stopping
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So we need to close the player after we
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stop it So player dot close So this is
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the overall script here And if I try to
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execute this you will see that
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uh so in this way you can play audio
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files directly inside the terminal
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inside Python using this package Thank
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you very much for watching this video
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