pydub

> playsound This library is unfortunately effectively abandoned -- it hasn’t received any updates in over four years, and its latest version doesn’t work at all: https://github.com/TaylorSMarks/playsound/issues/101 (A workaround exists: downgrading to version 1.2.2, but that comes with its own issues.) The last time I experimented with audio in Python, I was surprised by how lacking its multimedia libraries are. For example, when I needed to read audio files as data, I tried `SoundFile`, `librosa` (a wrapper around `SoundFile` or `audioread`), and `pydub`, and none of them was particularly satisfying or has seen much active development lately. If you need to read various formats, pydub is probably your best bet (it does this by invoking ffmpeg under the hood). I was hoping for a more "native" solution, but oh well. Unfortunately, `pydub`

I doubt it will matter if you're breaking up mid sentence if you pass in the previous as a prompt and split words. This is how Whisper does it internally. It's not absolutely perfect, but splitting on the word boundary is one line of code with the same package in their docs: https://github.com/jiaaro/pydub/blob/master/API.markdown#sil... 25MB is also a lot. That's 30 minutes to an hour on MP3 at reasonable compression. A 2 hour movie would have three splits.

Even given an option it can be difficult to find the corresponding documentation, if only because of the many different submodules and encoders and decoders and filters that have oh-so-slightly different options. That said, I've just switched from pydub to ffmpeg-python (due to memory issues of the former[1]) and judging from the Jupyter notebook[2] it seems a much more intuitive method of constructing ffmpeg pipelines. [1] https://github.com/jiaaro/pydub/issues/135 [2] https://github.com/kkroening/ffmpeg-python/tree/master/examp...

Definitely! Though you may already know, aligning notes to exact subdivisions of the beat is called quantization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantization_%28music%29 Quantized music feels noticeably less organic and lively, to me at least. Audio sequencers like Linux's Hydrogen give you the capability to mess with "lead" and "lag", but it must be done individually for each note and so is fairly tedious. I've used the Python module pydub along with a random number generator to set samples slightly ajar, but, while it helps, a purely random approach doesn't capture how human performers implement lead and lag. I absolutely recommend pydub as an easy way to manipulate sound files. https://github.com/jiaaro/pydub

> last_5_seconds = song[5000:] I think it should be song[-5000:] EDIT it was already reported https://github.com/jiaaro/pydub/issues/65