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Asked: 2026-06-15T17:40:04+00:00

I use Windows 7. All I want to do is create raw audio and

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I use Windows 7. All I want to do is create raw audio and stream it to a speaker. After that, I want to create classes that can generate sine progressions (basically, a tone that slowly gets more and more shrill). After that, I want to put my raw audio into audio codecs and containers like .WAV and .MP3 without going insane. How might I be able to achieve this in Python without using dependencies that don’t come with a standard install?

I looked up a great deal of files, descriptions, and related questions from here and all over the internet. I read about PCM and ADPCM, as well as A/D Converters. Where I get lost is somewhere between the ratio of byte input –> Kbps output, and all that stuff.

Really, all I want is for somebody to please be able to point me in the right direction to learn the audio formats precisely, and how to use them in Python (but first I want to start with raw audio).

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  1. Editorial Team

    This questions really has 2 parts:

    1. How do I generate audio signals
    2. How do I play audio signals through the speakers.

    I wrote a simple wrapper around the python std lib’s wave module, called pydub, which you can look at (on github) as a point of reference for how to manipulate raw audio data.

    I generally just export the audio data to a file and then play it using VLC player. IMHO there’s no reason to write a bunch of code to playback audio unless you’re making a synthesizer or a game or some other realtime app.

    Anyway, I hope that helps you get started 🙂

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