Can't figure out why PyDub is not working

Question

I'm trying to use pydub for a music project, but when trying to play sounds with this chunk of code

from pydub import AudioSegment
from pydub.playback import play
sound = AudioSegment.from_wav("s1.wav")
play(sound)

i get the following error:

RuntimeWarning: Couldn't find ffmpeg or avconv - defaulting to ffmpeg, but may not work
  warn("Couldn't find ffmpeg or avconv - defaulting to ffmpeg, but may not work", RuntimeWarning)
C:\Python\Python385\lib\site-packages\pydub\utils.py:184: RuntimeWarning: Couldn't find ffplay or avplay - defaulting to ffplay, but may not work
  warn("Couldn't find ffplay or avplay - defaulting to ffplay, but may not work", RuntimeWarning)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Users/vicen/Desktop/music project/mian.py", line 6, in <module>
    play(s1)
  File "C:\Python\Python385\lib\site-packages\pydub\playback.py", line 74, in play
    _play_with_ffplay(audio_segment)
  File "C:\Python\Python385\lib\site-packages\pydub\playback.py", line 18, in _play_with_ffplay
    seg.export(f.name, "wav")
  File "C:\Python\Python385\lib\site-packages\pydub\audio_segment.py", line 809, in export
    out_f, _ = _fd_or_path_or_tempfile(out_f, 'wb+')
  File "C:\Python\Python385\lib\site-packages\pydub\utils.py", line 60, in _fd_or_path_or_tempfile
    fd = open(fd, mode=mode)
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'C:\\Users\\vicen\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\tmpvwotqts5.wav'

Does someone understand why it isn't working? I am fairly new to python so i don't.

Answer 1

The python script encountered a Permission Error It is trying to read 'C:\\Users\\vicen\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\tmpvwotqts5.wav' file but doesn't have permission to write in the directory.

Changing permissions on the above mentioned Temp folder should solve the problem.

Or you could run your python script using sudo command. Since you are using windows this should help in this regard.

Answer 2

Easy Fix from here:

pip install simpleaudio

Pydub uses tempfiles extensively .As suggested here you can add TMPDIR environment variable.