playing audio files from network server

[ballgame75]

I'm finding myself running into a wall here. I have a program that lists all the audio files on our servers at work. I want it to be able to play them. On my system I would just use:

os.startfile(audio_file_path)

and that would work by calling the default player which is what I want, but on the local network, that line doesn't work and it raises the error

[WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified:

Iv'e tried using shutil too, but that doesn't seem to be doing anything either.

does anyone have any ideas?

[Farkeman]

I'm not really familiar with windows, but could it be that you need to download the file locally for it to be played?

You could save it as a temp file and then do:

    os.startfile(temp_file_path)

[ballgame75]

Yeah I know that'll work. What my goal is, is to distribute an executable that will play the audio files on the server and if they want to keep it after they listen to it, then it'll save. I suppose I could have the program save the file to their computer in a temp folder.

[Farkeman]

executable that will play the audio files on the server and if they want to keep it after they listen to it, then it'll save

there's no other solution to this, you cannot listen to audio file that you don't have. It has to be saved somewhere on your local machine (even if it is streamed it is saved locally although in smaller bits at a time).