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Pydub (windowserror: [error 2] The System Can Not Find The File Specified)

I have a problem with Pydub module running in Windows and Linux. When I try open a mp3 file thus: from pydub import AudioSegment sound = AudioSegment.from_mp3('test.mp3') Console

Solution 1:

Make sure that you have ffmpeghttp://www.ffmpeg.org/ installed. You can get help from this official page.

Other thing that I can think of is that ffmpeg is installed and is in your path but not in the path of the process using pydub.

If this is the reason for the error, then you can set the absolute path to ffmpeg directly like shown below:

import pydub
pydub.AudioSegment.ffmpeg = "/absolute/path/to/ffmpeg"
sound = AudioSegment.from_mp3("test.mp3")

Give this a try.

Solution 2:

In newer versions of , you can specify the absolute path to your executable by setting the class attribute converter, e.g.:

from pydub importAudioSegmentAudioSegment.converter = "/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg"

In older versions the class attribute used to be ffmpeg, which is deprecated now.

Solution 3:

In jupyter notebook this error could persist since the error is with anaconda environment. You can solve this by installing ffmpeg from conda-forge

Got to anaconda prompt and type:

conda install -c conda-forge ffmpeg

Solution 4:

The other way is put ffmpeg.exe,ffplay.exe in the current working directory

Solution 5:

Solution for MacOs and compiled Python

Maybe this solution is a bit hacky and not the best way, but it actually works for me on MacOs where I had the same problem. It solves the problem if the python script cannot access the system $PATH variable. I had to do it this way because I run my python code as a compiled binary from a java program which means for some reasons that the system $PATH variable set on my MacOs system cannot be accessed by the compiled python code.

Add this to your python code:

import osos.environ["PATH"] += os.pathsep + '/usr/local/bin'

'/usr/local/bin' is the default for MacOs - please change it if you installed ffmpeg in a different location.

I got the idea from an answer to that question: how do I modify the system path variable in python script?

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