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I tried downloading the file and playing it using winsound to play it with the flag SND_MEMORY, but it only accepts str instead of the bytes object I got from urllib.request.urlopen. Using decode() needs a valid encoding, but I don't have one.
CLARIFICATION:downloading the file I mean as using urllib.request.urlopen to do it.

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you do not need to decode anything. urllib.request.urlopen(...).read() already gives you raw bytes, and winsound.PlaySound can consume those bytes directly when you pass SND_MEMORY. In other words: keep the data as bytes and play it; do not convert to str. The only catch is that memory playback is synchronous, and you must not combine it with SND_ASYNC. (docs.python.org)

Play a remote WAV entirely from memory:

import urllib.request
import winsound

url = "https://example.com/sound.wav"

with urllib.request.urlopen(url) as r:
    data = r.read()  # bytes, not str

# Synchronous play from a WAV memory image
winsound.PlaySound(data, winsound.SND_MEMORY)

If you want non-blocking playback, write the download to a temporary file and then play it as a filename. This keeps your code snappy without leaving a permanent file around, and it is essentially what ’s approach accomplishes, just using a temp file instead of saving beside your script:

import urllib.request, tempfile, winsound, os

url = "https://example.com/sound.wav"

with urllib.request.urlopen(url) as r, tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False, suffix=".wav") as f:
    f.write(r.read())
tmp_path = f.name

winsound.PlaySound(tmp_path, winsound.SND_FILENAME | winsound.SND_ASYNC)

# remove when you know playback has finished
# os.remove(tmp_path)

Notes:

  • urlopen(...).read() returns bytes by design; no decoding is needed for WAV. (docs.python.org)
  • SND_MEMORY expects a WAV memory image and cannot be combined with SND_ASYNC; use a filename for async playback. (docs.python.org)
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Use urlretrieve,something like this.

import winsound    
try:
    # Python2
    from urllib import urlretrieve
except ImportError:
    # Python3
    from urllib.request import urlretrieve

def play(sound):
    winsound.PlaySound(sound, winsound.SND_FILENAME)

# Download wave file and save to disk
url = ""
filename = url.strip().split('/')[-1]
urlretrieve(url, filename)
print("Sound saved as {}".format(filename))

# Play wave file
play(filename)
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