Playing a user's track from a file?

[shizamuru-dev]

Hi, I was wondering if there is any way to play the sound from a file attached by the user?

I don't see in the documentation mentioning any local source (for uploading a file to the server, and further playback), or the possibility to add a raw track (via discord.File.fb).

[EvieePy]

Hey if you have an attachment and the attachment still exists in the channel (E.g the message has not been deleted) you can use the url of the attachment to search tracks directly.

tracks: wavelink.Search = await wavelink.Playable.search(attachment.url)

# Rest of code...

If you have files on your server that you want to play you can pass, None to source= in the Playable.search()

tracks: wavelink.Search = await wavelink.Playable.search("local.mp3", source=None)

# Rest of code...

[0Unzen]

Hey, I tried it once, but it can't find the file. I'm using the latest version of Wavelink. Am I doing something wrong?

async def speak(ctx: commands.Context, *, message: str):
    """Speak TTS Message"""
    player: wavelink.Player = cast(wavelink.Player, ctx.voice_client)

    # Check if the user is in a voice channel
    if not player:
        await ctx.send("Please join a voice channel first.")
        return

    # Pause the music if currently playing
    if player.playing:
        await player.pause(True)  # Pause the music

    try:
        # Add the audio source to the queue
        tracks: wavelink.Search = await wavelink.Playable.search("greeting.mp3", source=None)

        # Current working directory
        print("Current working directory:", os.getcwd())

        # List of files in the current working directory
        print("Files in the current directory:", os.listdir())

        # Check if tracks were found
        if not tracks or not tracks.tracks:
            await ctx.send("No tracks found for the given request.")
            return

        track: wavelink.Track = tracks.tracks[0]  # Take the first track
        await player.play(track)  # Play the track

        await ctx.send(f"Speaking: {message}")  # Confirmation to the user

        # Wait until the message is played
        while player.playing:
            await asyncio.sleep(1)  # Wait 1 second while the message plays

        # Resume music if it was paused
        if player.paused:
            await player.pause(False)

    except Exception as e:
        await ctx.send(f"Error while playing the TTS message: {e}")

[chillymosh]

You are using a relative path, so the mp3 has to be in the same directory as your bot. It's better to use absolute paths, ideally with Pathlib.

[0Unzen]

I also can't find the file using pathlib. Am I doing something wrong?

Console Output: Files in the current directory: ['.env', 'bot.py', 'gpt_interaction.py', 'greeting.mp3', 'main.py', 'tts.py', 'websocket.py', 'pycache']

async def speak(ctx: commands.Context, *, message: str):
    """Speak TTS Message"""
    player: wavelink.Player = cast(wavelink.Player, ctx.voice_client)

    # Check if the user is in a voice channel
    if not player:
        await ctx.send("Please join a voice channel first.")
        return

    # Pause the music if it's currently playing
    if player.playing:
        await player.pause(True)  # Pause the music

    try:
        # Create an absolute path to the greeting.mp3 file
        audio_file = Path(__file__).parent / "greeting.mp3"

        # Check if the file exists
        if not audio_file.is_file():
            await ctx.send("The audio file does not exist.")
            return

        # Add the audio source to the queue
        tracks: wavelink.Search = await wavelink.Playable.search(str(audio_file), source=None)

        # Print current working directory and list of files
        print("Current working directory:", os.getcwd())
        print("Files in the current directory:", os.listdir())

        # Check if tracks were found
        if not tracks:
            await ctx.send("No tracks found for the given request.")
            return

        track: wavelink.Track = tracks[0]  # Take the first track
        await player.play(track)  # Play the track

        await ctx.send(f"Speaking: {message}")  # Confirmation to the user

        # Wait until the message is played
        while player.playing:
            await asyncio.sleep(1)  # Wait 1 second while the message plays

        # Resume music if it was paused
        if player.paused:
            await player.pause(False)
    except Exception as e:
        await ctx.send(f"Error while playing the TTS message: {e}")

[chillymosh]

Have you enabled local as an audio source in the application.yaml for Lavalink?

[0Unzen]

That's it, thank you for the quick help <3