Pydub (WindowsError: [Error 2] The system can not find the file specified)

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gasgen picture gasgen · Mar 9, 2014 · Viewed 17.9k times · Source

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 show me the next message:

WindowsError: [Error 2] The system can not find the file specified

But...I have the file (test.mp3) in the same folder that the script, the name is correct.

Why I have this problem? (In Linux, have the same error)

Answer

ρss picture ρss · Mar 9, 2014

Make sure that you have ffmpeg http://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.

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