🔒 Permission Denied (Errno 13)

[silver sierra]

@viral trout

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[viral trout]

Hey guys,

so I am making this Bouncing Ball thingy that everyone knows from tiktok.
But now I have a permission error (Errno 13). Does anyone knows why that is and how I can fix it?

Code: https://paste.pythondiscord.com/RMQA

[fathom mica]

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[viral trout]

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\Users\Mika\Desktop\BoucingBall\main.py", line 107, in <module>
    main(audio_file_path)
  File "c:\Users\Mika\Desktop\BoucingBall\main.py", line 90, in main
    play_chunk(chunks[chunk_index])
  File "c:\Users\Mika\Desktop\BoucingBall\main.py", line 29, in play_chunk
    chunk.export(temp_file, format="wav")
  File "C:\Users\Mika\Desktop\BoucingBall\venv\lib\site-packages\pydub\audio_segment.py", line 867, in export
    out_f, _ = _fd_or_path_or_tempfile(out_f, 'wb+')
  File "C:\Users\Mika\Desktop\BoucingBall\venv\lib\site-packages\pydub\utils.py", line 60, in _fd_or_path_or_tempfile
    fd = open(fd, mode=mode)
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'C:/Users/Mika/Desktop/BoucingBall/temp_chunks\\temp_chunk.wav'

[cursive zodiac]

A common cause of this apparently is when the file you're trying to open is actually a folder, which can happen by mistake.

[viral trout]

But here it isnt

[cursive zodiac]

Oh, have you checked in the file explorer?

Are you also running the program as a user that has permission to write to that file?

[viral trout]

yes

I am running VS as an administrator and the file is on the same disk as vs code

I already gave extra permission to the file

but this windows account is the admin account so it shouldnt matter

[cursive zodiac]

Could you test whether opening it in read mode works?

f = open('C:/Users/Mika/Desktop/BoucingBall/temp_chunks/temp_chunk.wav', 'r')

[viral trout]

reading a sound file?

[cursive zodiac]

Yeah. I mean just opening the file with python, to try to get an idea of what the issue could be.

[viral trout]

opening the file with python isnt the problem

cause I once opened the song and it worked

even the first note of the song plays

[bleak canopy]

Did you ensure the file path is correct?

[viral trout]

yup

[bleak canopy]

You can try closing the file while running the code

[viral trout]

the file is always closed

or what do you mean?

[bleak canopy]

like check if its open on another window or ur ide

[viral trout]

ah, but no it isnt

[bleak canopy]

check task manager if its running in the background if thats not the case

[viral trout]

nothing there

[bleak canopy]

Did you try using AudioSegment.from_file() to convert it to an exportable file

your error is originating from line 29 if im not mistaken, maybe you can try fixing it by using:

temp_file = AudioSegment.from_file("path/to/file.mp3", format="mp3")
temp_file.export(temp_file_dir, format="mp3")

im not sure whether this will work but try using this as an example to fix that

cuz the .export() function only works if u used AudioSegment

[viral trout]

same error with this

[bleak canopy]

can you paste the line of code you modified with this?

[silver sierra]

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