How to join two wav files using python?

kaushik picture kaushik · May 23, 2010 · Viewed 35.4k times · Source

I am using python programming language,I want to join to wav file one at the end of other wav file? I have a Question in the forum which suggest how to merge two wav file i.e add the contents of one wav file at certain offset,but i want to join two wav file at the end of each other...

And also i had a prob playing the my own wav file,using winsound module..I was able to play the sound but using the time.sleep for certain time before playin any windows sound,disadvantage wit this is if i wanted to play a sound longer thn time.sleep(N),N sec also,the windows sound wil jst overlap after N sec play the winsound nd stop..

Can anyone help??please kindly suggest to how to solve these prob...

Thanks in advance

Answer

tom10 picture tom10 · May 24, 2010

Python ships with the wave module that will do what you need. The example below works when the details of the files (mono or stereo, frame rates, etc) are the same:

import wave

infiles = ["sound_1.wav", "sound_2.wav"]
outfile = "sounds.wav"

data= []
for infile in infiles:
    w = wave.open(infile, 'rb')
    data.append( [w.getparams(), w.readframes(w.getnframes())] )
    w.close()
    
output = wave.open(outfile, 'wb')
output.setparams(data[0][0])
for i in range(len(data)):
    output.writeframes(data[i][1])
output.close()