Random music using Python

Python
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I want to automate playing random music as shown in Python Automation Scripts You Should Know. However, it wasn’t what I’d expected. When I finally make it work, it only play 1 fixed song, no loop.

How do I make it pay randomly, loop, and play all the music in that folder? And if possible, how to write a script that play all music from more than 1 folder without opening the folder at random?

Windows version

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  1. If you want to play all music randomly in the folder → just need to shuffle order of the music and loop to it
songs = os.listdir(music_dir)
random.shuffle(songs)
for song_name in songs :
    song_path = os.path.join(music_dir, song_name)
    print(f'playing... {song_name}')
    os.startfile(song_path)
  1. if you want to play the song in specific folder → create answer 1 as a function and have argument with folder path
def randomly_music(folder_path: str) :
    songs = os.listdir(folder_path)
    random.shuffle(songs)
    print(f'playing music from {folder_path}')
    for song_name in songs :
        song_path = os.path.join(music_dir, song_name)
        print(f'playing... {song_name}')
        os.startfile(song_path)

folders_path = [path1, path2 ... ]
for folder_path in folders_path :
   randomly_music(folder_path)
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  1. Only play 1 random music. It doesn’t play all the music in the music_dir, after each music ended.
  2. I was thinking of it play all the music in a range of folders, but at random.

I planned to listen to a range of random music from either 1 specific folder or ranges of folders, automatically while studying.

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Another thing that would help greatly is not inputting the hard-coded folder path. Currently, my variable os.path.join and pathlib are not working. Maybe someone here can explain why is that.

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Hello this is Gulshan Negi
Well, to play all music in one folder you can execute below code:

#!/usr/local/Microsoft/WindowsApps/python
import random, os
music_dirs = [‘C:/Users/XXXX/Music/XXX’, ‘C:/Users/XXXX/Music/YYY’]
songs =
for music_dir in music_dirs:
songs.extend(os.listdir(music_dir))

infinite loop to play music randomly

while True:
# get a random song from the list of songs
song = random.choice(songs)
# get the directory of the song
music_dir = None
for dir in music_dirs:
if song in os.listdir(dir):
music_dir = dir
break
# print the song name
print(song)
# play the song
os.startfile(os.path.join(music_dir, song))

Thanks

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I’m sure I got something wrong, because nothing happened. There is no error too. Lastly, may I ask what with songs = []

As for the infinite loop, sorry if I don’t get it. Why is the directory path set to None? Was this part simply an extension to the previous main code above (as it lack the shebang; and import random, os)?

#!/usr/local/Microsoft/WindowsApps/python
import random, os
folder_A = “C:/Users/XXX/Music/YYY”
folder_B= “C:/Users/XXX/Music/ZZZ”
music_dirs = [folder_A, folder_B]
songs =
for music_dir in music_dirs:
songs.extend(os.listdir(music_dir))