Playing audio file with golang

Question

How one would play audio file in go language?

I have function and want sound to be played as notification when event happens.

I could not find anything about playing sound file in go lang just some web browser based music players but it wasnt helpful too much.

Answer 1

You could use the PortAudio Go bindings (go get github.com/gordonklaus/portaudio) for this.

You will have to build or install PortAudio on your system. Consult http://portaudio.com/docs/v19-doxydocs/tutorial_start.html for this.

A complete example for playing back a sound file is located at https://github.com/gordonklaus/portaudio/blob/master/examples/play.go

Answer 2

If it's an MP3 file, you can use go-mp3 Library. go-mp3 is popular library to play MP3; MP3 decoder is in pure Go.

Or this one, https://github.com/faiface/beep. Beep uses go-mp3 under the hood