MP3-Player in Python?

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"Thorsten Pferdekämper" <thorsten at pferdekaemper.com> wrote in message news:<bpg2l7$d9v$1 at news1.wdf.sap-ag.de>...
> Hi,
> I am currently trying to code a little MP3-Player in Python. I do not try to
> do all the decoding stuff in Python, I am just looking for a (more or
> less...) platform independent way to play MP3s. I also want to display
> information like these stored in the ID3-tag and information like the length
> in seconds, the scan frequency etc.
> So far, I have found the following solutions, but I am not really happy with
> all of them:
> 
> 1. pygame.mixer.music:
>     Pros: Seems to be very platform independent
>     Cons: I was not able to get the length in seconds etc.
> 
> 2. tksnack
>     Pros: Lots of functionality. Really cool.
>     Cons: Needs Tkinter to run. (I would like to run this without X in
> Linux.)
> 
>
> 
If Tkinter is the only problem you have with snack, you actually can
run it without X:

from Tkinter import Tk
import tkSnack

r = Tk()
r.withdraw()#removes the window from the screen
tkSnack.initializeSnack(r)
etc...

Regards

Michael