ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'playsound'

Question

I KNOW this question has been "answered" several times, but I'm going to ask it again after running through the steps....

I. I went and ran pip install playsound on my computer. command prompt tells me "Requirement already satisfied", and shows me the dirrectory leading to site-packages (1.2.2)

II. I try typing my code in IDLE.....

from playsound import playsound
def Song():
playsound('D:/Documents/Python/Evermore/Evermore.mp3')

Song()

III. BUUUUT I get the following error....

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:\Documents\Python\Evermore\Evermore.py", line 1, in <module>
from playsound import playsound
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'playsound'

this means if I'm correct that no such module for playsound exists, EVEN THOUGH I ALREADY INSTALLED IT WITH PIP!!!

IV. I find that it might be the wrong version, so I go back to terminal and try the following command

'pip3 install playsound'
BUT it keeps telling me that pip3 is not recognized

V. I restart terminal and type in python, and I get Python 3.7.4 as the version installed, which SHOULD tell me that the version I'm working with is a version of python 3. I type 4+4 and the return is 8 so I know that it's working as it should.

VI. I restart terminal, and type in pip3 install playsound.... still the same error....

I just can't seem to get python to recognize that I want to play an mp3 file. I have the file in the same directory as the script so it SHOULD recognize that that's the file to be played, but when I try removing the directory from the name. I tried removing, changing the slashes in the path, NOTHING

What AM I doing wrong with something as simple as this?

Answer 1

I deduce that you are on linux, if you have python3 installed download get-pip.py script at https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py, then do "python3 get-pip.py" to install pip3. After this you should be able to do "pip3 install playsound".

Answer 2

I don’t know how you can even run pip on its own from the command line, but what operating system are you using? When I install python packages on windows 10, this is how I do it: python -m pip install pygame
(you can use pygame.mixer to play sounds).

if you have multiple versions of python installed on windows, things could be a little more conplicated. make sure that the command line python you are using is the same version that is launching IDLE.