🔒 Trying to get an old file to work with python 3.13 and ffmpeg

[clear ice]

thanks to @ashen latch changing the <> to != helped me get the original program back on its feet and following the advice from the cmd I managed to get this far with it:
C:\Users\X\makechannelradio.py:38: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\m'
search_path = 'd:\music'
searching d:\music for media files...

d:\music\folder1\music1.flac
error (with getLength()?)

d:\music\folder2\music2.flac
error (with getLength()?)

0 files found

I have ffmpeg version 2025-12-31-git-38e89fe502-full_build-www.gyan.dev

[stoic vapor]

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[latent trail]

commandline
ffprobe -v error -show_entries format=duration -of default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 -sexagesimal video.mp4

i think you work with those exe files right?

[clear ice]

what do you mean specifically by this?

[latent trail]

dont know if you use python files and if you need to
https://github.com/GyanD/codexffmpeg/releases/tag/8.0.1

ready to use exe and with commands like a wrote you get out the file size

[sudden edge]

for strings that contain a backslash \ you either need to prefix each backslash with one more backslash or you prefix the string with an r making it raw string which doesn't care about escape sequences

[clear ice]

that got rid of the first complaint in the command line, would I do the same for the get length function?

[sudden edge]

search_path  = 'd:\music'
```becomes either
```py
search_path  = 'd:\\music'
```or
```py
search_path  = r'd:\music'

that is needed for all such strings

[clear ice]

all that did was get rid of the syntax warning at the start (it cleaned that part but it didn't prevent it from failing every get length function)
C:\Users\X>python makechannelradio.py
searching d:\music for media files...

d:\music\folder1\music1.flac
error (with getLength()?)

[clear ice]

oh thats what you meant I already have ffmpeg to my path and such

from the looks of it it is erroring out because all of my music files have spaces in their name, is there a way to circuimnavigate this? (nvm that is part of the issue but it is still bugging out on the python side)

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