6 Powerful Tips for Manipulating Audio File

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Introduction

Dealing with audio files may not be that common to a Python enthusiast, but sometimes you may wonder if you are able to manipulate audio files in Python for your personal interest. For instance, if you really like some music, and you want to edit some parts of it and save into your phone, so that you can listen it during your study or outdoor exercise without skipping those annoying ads.

In this post, I would be introducing you a simple yet useful library for you to manipulate audio file in Python code.

Prerequisites:

You need to install Pydub in your working environment, below is the installation command via pip ( click for more tips):

pip install pydub

The library has the dependency to ffmpeg in order to support most of the audio file formats, so you may use the below command to install if you do not have it yet:

pip install ffmpeg

Download Video from YouTube

As I am going to use a funny video from YouTube for the later demonstration, I would need install another library — youtube_dl to download the video into my local folder:

pip install youtube_dl