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I have been trying to figure this out for a while, and can't find a solution to why it won't work. I'm pretty new, and this is probably an easy fix, but this code:

from tkinter import *
import pygame
import os
import random

root = Tk()
root.title('Hello')
root.geometry('500x400')


pygame.init()
pygame.mixer.init()


randomfile = random.choice(os.listdir("D:/Desktop/Plugin"))


def play():
	pygame.mixer.music.load(randomfile)
	pygame.mixer.music.play(loop=0)

startButton = Button(root, text="Start", font=("Helvetica", 32), command=play)
startButton.pack(pady=20)

def stop():
	pygame.mixer.music.stop()

stopButton = Button(root, text="Stop", command=stop)
stopButton.pack(pady=20)

root.mainloop()

Will always give me the error: pygame.error: Couldn't open 'audio2.mp3' I have 3 audio files in the folder and can't figure out why this wouldnt work.

You are getting the name of a file in folder D:/Desktop/Plugin. To open the file you need to specify the filename and folder

You will need to give pygame mixer the full path to the file. Something like this :

randomfile = random.choice(os.listdir("D:/Desktop/Plugin"))
full_file_name = 'D:/Desktop/Plugin/' + randomfile
pygame.mixer.music.load (full_file_name)

Also loop=0 is not valid. The correct syntax is :

pygame.mixer.music.play(0)

This worked great on my system :

from tkinter import *
import pygame
import os
import random

root = Tk()
root.title('Hello')
root.geometry('500x400')


pygame.init()
pygame.mixer.init()
path = '/home/BashBedlam/test/'
randomfile = random.choice(os.listdir("test"))
filename = path + randomfile
def play():
	pygame.mixer.music.load(filename)
	pygame.mixer.music.play(0)

startButton = Button(root, text="Start", font=("Helvetica", 32), command=play)
startButton.pack(pady=20)

def stop():
	pygame.mixer.music.stop()

stopButton = Button(root, text="Stop", command=stop)
stopButton.pack(pady=20)

root.mainloop()