Learn How to Create a Music Player in Python

Work on an interesting Python Project – Music Player and boost your confidence.

Music washes away the dust of everyday life from the soul
-Berthold Auerbach.

The saying was indeed true, we all love music. Also, we don’t prefer any kind of disturbance or ads in between but this seems impossible without a paid subscription, so let’s try to design a music player, just like the way we want.

Let’s discuss it in technical terms.

Project Prerequisites

The prerequisites are as follows :

1. Basic Python concepts
2. Tkinter

To install the libraries, you can use pip installer from the cmd/Terminal:

Pip install tkinter

Download Python Music Player Code

Please download the code of python music player project: Music Player Source Code

Let’s start the coding

Now, we will write the python program to create a music player

Create main.py

Create main.py file and add the following code (alternatively, you can use the code which you downloaded in previous step):

Code:

import pygame
from pygame import mixer
from tkinter import *
import os

def playsong():
    currentsong=playlist.get(ACTIVE)
    print(currentsong)
    mixer.music.load(currentsong)
    songstatus.set("Playing")
    mixer.music.play()

def pausesong():
    songstatus.set("Paused")
    mixer.music.pause()

def stopsong():
    songstatus.set("Stopped")
    mixer.music.stop()

def resumesong():
    songstatus.set("Resuming")
    mixer.music.unpause()    

root=Tk()
root.title('ProjectGurukul Music player project')

mixer.init()
songstatus=StringVar()
songstatus.set("choosing")

#playlist---------------

playlist=Listbox(root,selectmode=SINGLE,bg="DodgerBlue2",fg="white",font=('arial',15),width=40)
playlist.grid(columnspan=5)

os.chdir(r'C:\Users\BOSS\Desktop\MyPlaylist')
songs=os.listdir()
for s in songs:
    playlist.insert(END,s)

playbtn=Button(root,text="play",command=playsong)
playbtn.config(font=('arial',20),bg="DodgerBlue2",fg="white",padx=7,pady=7)
playbtn.grid(row=1,column=0)

pausebtn=Button(root,text="Pause",command=pausesong)
pausebtn.config(font=('arial',20),bg="DodgerBlue2",fg="white",padx=7,pady=7)
pausebtn.grid(row=1,column=1)

stopbtn=Button(root,text="Stop",command=stopsong)
stopbtn.config(font=('arial',20),bg="DodgerBlue2",fg="white",padx=7,pady=7)
stopbtn.grid(row=1,column=2)

Resumebtn=Button(root,text="Resume",command=resumesong)
Resumebtn.config(font=('arial',20),bg="DodgerBlue2",fg="white",padx=7,pady=7)
Resumebtn.grid(row=1,column=3)

mainloop()

 

Libraries Used

1. Pygame: to play, pause, load, stop, and resume music.
2. Tkinter: to develop GUI.
3. os: to access the song folder.

Functions Used

1. playsong: It loads the active song from the list and plays the required song. It gets executed when the user clicks on “play”.
2. pausesong: It pauses the required song. It gets executed when the user clicks on “pause”.
3. stopsong: It stops the required song. It gets executed when the user clicks on “stop”.
4. resumesong: It resumes the required song. It gets executed when the user clicks on “resume”.

Variables Used

1. root: the main GUI window.
2. songstatus: it stores the status of the currently active song.
3. playlist: It stores the name of all songs available at the specified location.

Rest are play, pause, stop, and resume buttons.

Python Music Player Output

Summary

We have successfully developed a music player in python. In this project, we have used Tkinter & Pygame APIs of python.