Python Pydub Permission denied?

Question

When i run this code :

from pydub import AudioSegment
sound = AudioSegment.from_mp3("i.mp3")
sound.export("F:\\bh", format="wav")

A ffmpeg window pops up and i get this error:

Even if i run it with admin privilleges:

Note :
The error occurs on every location that I try to export

Ernestinaernestine

same problem, no solution – Halt

Did you find the solution? @Anonymous – Mernamero

Answer 1

If you are on Windows, face this problem, and also have issues installing simpleaudio, you can try installing pyaudio instead.

If you are using Anaconda, you can install pyaudio with

conda install -c anaconda pyaudio

For me, simpleaudio on Anaconda is only available for Linux and MacOS and not Windows.

Allocate

pip install pyaudio worked for me on windows 11 – Fatality

Answer 2

See this thread here. They suggest installing simpleaudio (pip install simpleaudio) to resolve this issue. It worked for me.

Bailor

Answer 3

I had the same issue but fixed using the GillHawk solution from this thread (same link as Jondiepdoop gave). I added f.close() in the _play_with_ffplay function of the playback.py file :

def _play_with_ffplay(seg):
with NamedTemporaryFile("w+b", suffix=".wav") as f:
    f.close() # close the file stream
    seg.export(f.name, "wav")
    subprocess.call([PLAYER, "-nodisp", "-autoexit", "-hide_banner", f.name])

Hydrangea

amazing solution. In my case, I also need no the r' before the file path, like sound = AudioSegment.from_file('C:\\temp\\audio1.mp3', format="mp3"). – Lavettelavigne

Answer 4

You can also choose to do the removal with os.remove()

import os

def _play_with_ffplay(seg):
    try:
        with NamedTemporaryFile("w+b", suffix=".wav", delete=False) as f:
            seg.export(f.name, "wav")
            subprocess.call([PLAYER, "-nodisp", "-autoexit", "-hide_banner", f.name])
    finally:
        os.remove(f.name)

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