this message was originally posted by someone else and closed without a proper answer. i'm reposting it in hopes that someone will provide a solution.
Begin Quote: "I'm attempting to play an mp3 file on OSX, but am running into some difficulty. When using py-mad and py-ao, I only get static with the following code (which is derived off another mailing that I found from this list's archives): #!/usr/bin/env python '''Requires: py-mad (mp3 ability) py-ao (system audio ability) ''' import mad, ao, sys mf = mad.MadFile(sys.argv[1]) dev = ao.AudioDevice('macosx')#osx device, linux: use "oss" or "alsa" while 1: buf = mf.read() if buf is None: break dev.play(buf, len(buf)) Does anyone know why this produces static, or whether there's a better method of producing audio output that's also cross-platform (OSX, linux)? I've looked at pymedia, but they do not support OSX at the moment. Thanks!" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list