FileNotFoundError when trying to use Pydub to split audio segments

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I am trying to use pydub to split audio into evenly spaced segments. Right now I can't seem to even get it to read the audio file. I'm using Jupyter notebook through Anaconda. The solutions from the other topic on this did not help (How to fix FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified with AudioSegment.from_mp3())

I have:

added libav to PATH
specified where the ffmpeg exe file is, and also installed through conda
tried running it from command prompt
tried with and without the AudioSegment.converter line, as well as with and without AudioSegment.ffmpeg
tried with AudioSegment.from_file and .from_mp3

Would appreciate some help.

import pydub
import math

from pydub import AudioSegment
pydub.AudioSegment.converter = r'C:\Users\M\Desktop\Pydub\ffmpeg.exe'

AudioName = 'Abc' #Name of audio (string)
AudioImported = AudioSegment.from_mp3(r'C:\Users\M\Desktop\Pydub\Abc.mp3')
AudioLength = AudioImported.duration_seconds

Interval = input('Clip length (seconds):') #Length of each clip in seconds
NumClips = math.floor(AudioLength / Interval)

t1 = 0
for i in range(1,  NumClips):
    t2 = t1 + i*1000
    Clip = AudioImported[t1:t2]
    ClipName = AudioName + 'i' + '.mp3'
    Clip.export(ClipName, format='mp3')
    t1 = t2

Edit: Issue resolved itself somehow. Last thing I did was install ffmpeg thorugh conda, but I guess it took a while to kick in.

Also apparently this function is right in the documentation that I missed:


from pydub import AudioSegment
sound = AudioSegment.from_file("/path/to/sound.wav", format="wav")

# split sound in 5-second slices and export
for i, chunk in enumerate(sound[::5000]):
  with open("sound-%s.mp3" % i, "wb") as f:
    chunk.export(f, format="mp3")

@ewong I don't know what changed, but it seems to be working now. The last thing I did was installing ffmpeg through conda. I guess it needed a few minutes to kick in? I dunno. Thanks for your concern anyway. Also the function that I was making was actually right in the documentation (slice), I've updated that in the OP. — totalpotato, Nov 19 '20 at 01:05
if work now afther the conda solution you should close that question — Enrique Benito Casado, Sep 07 '22 at 14:08

FileNotFoundError when trying to use Pydub to split audio segments

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