I'm looking for a solution to easily play remote .mp3 files. I have looked at "pyglet" module which works on local files, but it seems it can't handle remote files. I could temporary download the .mp3 file but that's not reccomended due to how large the .mp3 files could appear to be.
I rather want it to be for cross-platform instead of Windows-only etc.
Example, playing a audio file from:
Just stream the file as it's downloads, my idea is a MP3 player in Python which opens Soundcloud songs.
You can use GStreamer with python bindings (requires PyGTK).
Then you can use this code:
import pygst
import gst
def on_tag(bus, msg):
taglist = msg.parse_tag()
print 'on_tag:'
for key in taglist.keys():
print '\t%s = %s' % (key, taglist[key])
#our stream to play
music_stream_uri = 'http://mp3channels.webradio.antenne.de/chillout'
#creates a playbin (plays media form an uri)
player = gst.element_factory_make("playbin", "player")
#set the uri
player.set_property('uri', music_stream_uri)
#start playing
player.set_state(gst.STATE_PLAYING)
#listen for tags on the message bus; tag event might be called more than once
bus = player.get_bus()
bus.enable_sync_message_emission()
bus.add_signal_watch()
bus.connect('message::tag', on_tag)
#wait and let the music play
raw_input('Press enter to stop playing...')
UPDATE
Controlling the player:
def play():
player.set_state(gst.STATE_PLAYING)
def pause():
player.set_state(gst.STATE_PAUSED)
def stop():
player.set_state(gst.STATE_NULL)
def play_new_uri( new_uri ):
player.set_state(gst.STATE_NULL)
player.set_property('uri', new_uri )
play()