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Asked: 2026-05-13T00:47:49+00:00

There are several different audio libraries, however, none of them meet my exact needs:

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There are several different audio libraries, however, none of them meet my exact needs:

– It needs to be cross-platform.

– It needs to be able to use the ALSA, PulseAudio or any other common default mixer under Linux.

– It needs to be able to autodetect the sample frequency.

– It needs to be (fairly) simple in usage, if instead someone can give me an extra script that will MAKE it easier for me that’s accepted too.

– The only functionality I need is play/pause, seeking is a nice bonus.

– It needs to be able to play MP3 and OGG. No other formats are important to me.

The libraries I’ve tried so far:

PyGame – doesn’t support detecting the song’s frequency

PyAudiere – promising, but only loads OSS in Linux, with which I have serious mixing problems

Built-in modules – don’t support MP3 and OGG as far as I’m aware

PyMedia – promising, but complicated. Also couldn’t find out what mixing devices it uses.

PySonic – relies on a closed-source library.

PyQt4.phonon – promising, but wouldn’t play anything. Got the following error:

gst_element_make_from_uri: assertion `gst_uri_is_valid (uri)’ failed

Any help on this would be appreciated.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Use gstreamer.

    • It needs to be cross-platform.
    • It needs to be able to use the ALSA, PulseAudio or any other common default mixer under Linux.

    Check – From gstreamer website:

    GStreamer has been ported to a wide
    range of operating systems, processors
    and compilers. This include but are
    not limited to Linux on i86,PPC, ARM
    using GCC. Solaris on x86 and SPARC
    using both GCC and Forte, MacOSX,
    Microsoft Windows using MS Visual
    Developer and IBM OS/400.

    GStreamer can bridge to other
    multimedia frameworks in order to
    reuse existing components (e.g.
    codecs) and use platform input/output
    mechanisms:

    • Linux/Unix: OpenMAX-IL (via gst-openmax)
    • Windows: DirectShow
    • MacOS X: QuickTime
    • It needs to be able to autodetect the sample frequency.

    Okay.

    • It needs to be (fairly) simple in usage, if instead someone can give me an extra script that will MAKE it easier for me that’s accepted too.

    Gstreamer has a lot of documentation and examples, and a strong community to give you support.

    • The only functionality I need is play/pause, seeking is a nice bonus.
    • It needs to be able to play MP3 and OGG. No other formats are important to me.

    Then those are overwhelmed!

    Go get yours!

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