Can't change audio file format - python

Question

I'm creating a program for school that streams video and audio from youtube and displays them for a few clients at the same time. For this, I need to change a file's format to .mp3 and I learned that I can do that with pydub AudioSegment, yet, I keep getting an error.

That's the code lines that bring the error:

original_audio = AudioSegment.from_file(original_name)
original_audio.export(new_name, format="mp3")

This is the error:

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

Thank you in advance.

never allow spaces in filenames nor directory names ... fix that and try again ... supply the full path to your file not just relative path ... for example /my/full/path/to/mytune.mp3 — Scott Stensland, May 01 '18 at 23:07

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 01 '18 at 15:43

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Do you have ffmpeg installed? AFAIK that is a requirement. You can download ffmpeg from here: http://ffmpeg.org

Put this in your script directory and everything should then work fine.

answered May 01 '18 at 15:43

Sasha

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I really dont know how to install this, can you help me out? – itay12v May 01 '18 at 16:18
You don't have to install, just download the EXE and put it in the same file as your `.py` file – Sasha May 02 '18 at 09:33

Can't change audio file format - python

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