Failed to play an audio file with Python's playsound

Question

I tried to use the playsound module to play an audio file. When I run my code I get this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/Tarantino/Desktop/CodeTesting/sound.py", line 3, in <module>
    playsound('sound.mp3')
  File "/Users/Tarantino/Library/Python/3.8/lib/python/site-packages/playsound.py", line 67, in _playsoundOSX
    raise IOError('Unable to load sound named: ' + sound)
OSError: Unable to load sound named: file:///Users/Tarantino/Desktop/Code Testing/sound.mp3

I have the audio file in the same folder as the Python code, could I please get help on what to do?

Answer 1

Move file you're playing to folder that has no special or non-ascii characters on the full path from root of disk, spaces in files/dirs names are not allowed too. Because playsound is creating an URL from full path-location of file and this URL should has valid for URLs chars.

E.g. /x/y/z.mp3 path is alright, but /x y/z.mp3 and /x[y]/z.mp3 and /x/漢/z.mp3 are not.

Also try upgrading library via python -m pip install --upgrade playsound, I've just installed library and tried playing sound and it plays for me.

Also some dir on the path might not have read permissions for the user you are running python with.