Build a music player with Tkinter and Pygame in Python

In this tutorial, we will learn how to build or create a simple music player application in Python using Tkinter and Pygame.

Listening to music is a hobby of almost every person you meet around daily, for playing this music we need to have installed a music player in our device, each and every operating system whether it is Windows, Linux, Mac or even Android, Apple IOS also consist of a music player for playing your favorite songs.

So In this tutorial, we will be learning how to create a music player from scratch using the Python Programming Language. As we all know Python has a very rich library support, so from the bunch of libraries we are going to use some of them to build our GUI based music player. The libraries we are going to use are:

• Tkinter – As it is specified in the title of our tutorial that we are going to use the Tkinter library for GUI creation of our music player, as Tkinter is most popular and very easy to use library that comes with many widgets which helps in creating of seamless and nice-looking GUI Applications.
• Pygame – Pygame is also a very library that gives us the power of playing with different multimedia formats like audio, video, etc. In this tutorial, we will be using Pygame’s ‘mixer.music’ module for providing different functionality to are music player application, related to manipulation with the song tracks.
• OS –  This is a module that comes in the standard library of Python, we don’t need to install it explicitly. OS provides different functions for interaction with the Operating System. In this tutorial, we are going to use OS for fetching the playlist of songs from the specified directory and make it available to the music player application.

To learn more about Tkinter library, Pygame Library or OS Module of Python you can refer to there documentation.

Building Music Player using Tkinter, Pygame in Python

Before getting started with actual code we need to install the required libraries:

Installation:

$ sudo apt-get install python3-tk
$ pip3 install pygame

Now, let’s get started with our code:

Source Code: Music player in Python

# Importing Required Modules & libraries
from tkinter import *
import pygame
import os

# Defining MusicPlayer Class
class MusicPlayer:

  # Defining Constructor
  def __init__(self,root):
    self.root = root
    # Title of the window
    self.root.title("Music Player")
    # Window Geometry
    self.root.geometry("1000x200+200+200")
    # Initiating Pygame
    pygame.init()
    # Initiating Pygame Mixer
    pygame.mixer.init()
    # Declaring track Variable
    self.track = StringVar()
    # Declaring Status Variable
    self.status = StringVar()

    # Creating Track Frame for Song label & status label
    trackframe = LabelFrame(self.root,text="Song Track",font=("times new roman",15,"bold"),bg="grey",fg="white",bd=5,relief=GROOVE)
    trackframe.place(x=0,y=0,width=600,height=100)
    # Inserting Song Track Label
    songtrack = Label(trackframe,textvariable=self.track,width=20,font=("times new roman",24,"bold"),bg="grey",fg="gold").grid(row=0,column=0,padx=10,pady=5)
    # Inserting Status Label
    trackstatus = Label(trackframe,textvariable=self.status,font=("times new roman",24,"bold"),bg="grey",fg="gold").grid(row=0,column=1,padx=10,pady=5)

    # Creating Button Frame
    buttonframe = LabelFrame(self.root,text="Control Panel",font=("times new roman",15,"bold"),bg="grey",fg="white",bd=5,relief=GROOVE)
    buttonframe.place(x=0,y=100,width=600,height=100)
    # Inserting Play Button
    playbtn = Button(buttonframe,text="PLAY",command=self.playsong,width=6,height=1,font=("times new roman",16,"bold"),fg="navyblue",bg="gold").grid(row=0,column=0,padx=10,pady=5)
    # Inserting Pause Button
    playbtn = Button(buttonframe,text="PAUSE",command=self.pausesong,width=8,height=1,font=("times new roman",16,"bold"),fg="navyblue",bg="gold").grid(row=0,column=1,padx=10,pady=5)
    # Inserting Unpause Button
    playbtn = Button(buttonframe,text="UNPAUSE",command=self.unpausesong,width=10,height=1,font=("times new roman",16,"bold"),fg="navyblue",bg="gold").grid(row=0,column=2,padx=10,pady=5)
    # Inserting Stop Button
    playbtn = Button(buttonframe,text="STOP",command=self.stopsong,width=6,height=1,font=("times new roman",16,"bold"),fg="navyblue",bg="gold").grid(row=0,column=3,padx=10,pady=5)

    # Creating Playlist Frame
    songsframe = LabelFrame(self.root,text="Song Playlist",font=("times new roman",15,"bold"),bg="grey",fg="white",bd=5,relief=GROOVE)
    songsframe.place(x=600,y=0,width=400,height=200)
    # Inserting scrollbar
    scrol_y = Scrollbar(songsframe,orient=VERTICAL)
    # Inserting Playlist listbox
    self.playlist = Listbox(songsframe,yscrollcommand=scrol_y.set,selectbackground="gold",selectmode=SINGLE,font=("times new roman",12,"bold"),bg="silver",fg="navyblue",bd=5,relief=GROOVE)
    # Applying Scrollbar to listbox
    scrol_y.pack(side=RIGHT,fill=Y)
    scrol_y.config(command=self.playlist.yview)
    self.playlist.pack(fill=BOTH)
    # Changing Directory for fetching Songs
    os.chdir("/home/sameer/Desktop/CodeSpeedy/cs10/songs")
    # Fetching Songs
    songtracks = os.listdir()
    # Inserting Songs into Playlist
    for track in songtracks:
      self.playlist.insert(END,track)

  # Defining Play Song Function
  def playsong(self):
    # Displaying Selected Song title
    self.track.set(self.playlist.get(ACTIVE))
    # Displaying Status
    self.status.set("-Playing")
    # Loading Selected Song
    pygame.mixer.music.load(self.playlist.get(ACTIVE))
    # Playing Selected Song
    pygame.mixer.music.play()

  def stopsong(self):
    # Displaying Status
    self.status.set("-Stopped")
    # Stopped Song
    pygame.mixer.music.stop()

  def pausesong(self):
    # Displaying Status
    self.status.set("-Paused")
    # Paused Song
    pygame.mixer.music.pause()

  def unpausesong(self):
    # Displaying Status
    self.status.set("-Playing")
    # Playing back Song
    pygame.mixer.music.unpause()

# Creating TK Container
root = Tk()
# Passing Root to MusicPlayer Class
MusicPlayer(root)
# Root Window Looping
root.mainloop()

I would recommend you to go through the code thoroughly, it is very easy to understand I had also added comments for almost every single line, for making your understanding better.

 Output:

Created separate songs directory:

Added Some random songs in the directory:

Started the Music Player Application:

Selecting the song that will be played:

Clicked on the PLAY button, Song Playing:

Clicked on the PAUSE button, Song Paused:

Clicked on the UNPAUSE button, Song Playing:

Clicked on the STOP button, Song Stopped:

So In this way, you can create a simple music player using Python. I hope this tutorial was helpful to you, thank you ‘keep Learning Keep Coding’.