How to play mp3 from URL

Question

I\'m trying to write a python script that will play mp3 from Soundcloud URL

This is what I\'ve already done:

from urllib.request import urlopen

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Answer 1

Check if you can download file manually using that URL. If its protected site with username/passwd, you may need to take care of that first.

If not, here is a working code that downloads file from url using urllib2 and then plays it using pydub.

Its a two step process where first mp3 file is downloaded and saved to file and then played using external player.

import urllib2
from pydub import AudioSegment
from pydub.playback import play


mp3file = urllib2.urlopen("http://www.bensound.org/bensound-music/bensound-dubstep.mp3")
with open('./test.mp3','wb') as output:
  output.write(mp3file.read())

song = AudioSegment.from_mp3("./test.mp3")
play(song)

** Update **
You did mention that you need streaming from web. In that case you may want to look at GStreamer with Python Bindings

Here is a SO link for that.