How to stop audio with playsound module?

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How do I stop the audio playing through playaudio module in Python code? I have played music but I can't stop that music. How can I stop it?

playsound.playsound("name_of_file")

You will need to show us some more code. This is very little to work with. — harmonica141, Jul 23 '19 at 07:27
like i have one file named drinking_water.mp3 then i want to stop the music when i inputs stop then i am not able to stop the music . i enter the code playsound.playsound("drinking_water.mp3") but i want to stop the music in middle, then what should be the code for stopping that playing music — Kashish Jain, Jul 23 '19 at 15:56

score 17 · Answer 1 · edited May 07 '20 at 19:33

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You can use the multiprocessing module to play the sound as a background process, then terminate it anytime you want:

import multiprocessing
from playsound import playsound

p = multiprocessing.Process(target=playsound, args=("file.mp3",))
p.start()
input("press ENTER to stop playback")
p.terminate()

edited May 07 '20 at 19:33

Artemis

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answered Apr 12 '20 at 21:40

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how to call terminate command from another file ? – drascom Jan 18 '22 at 13:32
this code is broken – Spiceinajar May 20 '23 at 12:42

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 05 '19 at 00:56

Playsound is a single function module that plays sounds, and nothing else. It would seem that means it does not stop playing sounds either. From their own documentation:

The playsound module contains only one thing - the function (also named) playsound.

Personally, I like to use pyaudio. The following code is adapted from the example here. The code plays audio and has the space bar set as a pause/play button.

import pyaudio
import wave
import time
from pynput import keyboard

paused = False    # global to track if the audio is paused
def on_press(key):
    global paused
    print (key)
    if key == keyboard.Key.space:
        if stream.is_stopped():     # time to play audio
            print ('play pressed')
            stream.start_stream()
            paused = False
            return False
        elif stream.is_active():   # time to pause audio
            print ('pause pressed')
            stream.stop_stream()
            paused = True
            return False
    return False


# you audio here
wf = wave.open('audio\\songs\\And_Your_Bird_Can_Sing_mp3_2_wav.wav', 'rb')

# instantiate PyAudio
p = pyaudio.PyAudio()

# define callback
def callback(in_data, frame_count, time_info, status):
    data = wf.readframes(frame_count)
    return (data, pyaudio.paContinue)

# open stream using callback
stream = p.open(format=p.get_format_from_width(wf.getsampwidth()),
                channels=wf.getnchannels(),
                rate=wf.getframerate(),
                output=True,
                stream_callback=callback)

# start the stream
stream.start_stream()

while stream.is_active() or paused==True:
    with keyboard.Listener(on_press=on_press) as listener:
        listener.join()
    time.sleep(0.1)

# stop stream
stream.stop_stream()
stream.close()
wf.close()

# close PyAudio
p.terminate()

score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 05 '19 at 01:44

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On windows try: import winsound

winsound.PlaySound(r'C:\sound.wav', winsound.SND_ASYNC)

Stop Playback:

winsound.PlaySound(None, winsound.SND_PURGE)

answered Aug 05 '19 at 01:44

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score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 20 '21 at 19:35

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#pip install pygame
from pygame import mixer
import time
mixer.init() #Initialzing pyamge mixer

mixer.music.load('lovingly-618.mp3') #Loading Music File

mixer.music.play() #Playing Music with Pygame

time.sleep(5)


mixer.music.stop()

answered Apr 20 '21 at 19:35

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Code only answers are discouraged. Please provide a summary of how your answer solves the problem and why it may be preferable to the other answers provided. – DaveL17 Apr 20 '21 at 22:53

score 0 · Answer 5 · edited May 01 '23 at 08:34

Here is a much easier way:

wmp = win32com.client.dynamic.Dispatch("WMPlayer.OCX")
wmp.settings.autoStart = True
wmp.settings.volume = 100
wmp.URL = file
while globals()["allowSound"]:
    PumpWaitingMessages()

You can change globals()["allowSound"] from another thread and set it to False when the audio has ended (you can get the length of the audio with wmp.durationString).

Here is some more info about this: Windows Media Player COM Automation works from VBS but not from Python

Although this does not use the playsound module it is a good alternative.

score -1 · Answer 6 · edited Oct 04 '21 at 10:44

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After successful execution of the program, audio file will start playing. Now Click on terminal, once you see the cursor, type Ctrl+C, it will bring you out of the terminal and audio will also stop playing.

Programming Instructions used:

from playsound import playsound

playsound('//path//to//a//sound//file//you//want//to//play.mp3')

edited Oct 04 '21 at 10:44

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answered Jun 15 '21 at 08:42

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That will stop the whole program, which may or may not be what the OP wants. The accepted answer seems to be a better solution. – Robert Jun 15 '21 at 15:09

score -1 · Answer 7 · edited May 01 '23 at 08:33

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On your terminal tab, look for kill(delete) option on the right hand side. Click the delete option and it will stop playing.

edited May 01 '23 at 08:33

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answered Jul 16 '22 at 06:07

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