# Playing a .mp3 flie

**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/playing-a-mp3-flie/18030
**Category:** General
**Created:** [16 November 2019 07:25 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/playing-a-mp3-flie/18030 "2019-11-16T07:25:57Z")
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#### Post date: [23 November 2019 06:16 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/playing-a-mp3-flie/18030/20 "2019-11-23T06:16:33Z")

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If anyone is still reading this:

I am not further down the track of understanding why:  
`play /home/me/Music/DontTouchTheButton.mp3`  
from a terminal/CLI works. All things on THIS machine.

If I put that into a NR `exec` node it doesn't.

Yet, with `debug` nodes on all three outputs of the node, it would seem it works/ed.

Output #1:`""`  
Output #2:`/home/me/Music/DontTouchTheButton.mp3: File Size: 36.2k Bit Rate: 173k Encoding: MPEG audio Channels: 2 @ 16-bit Samplerate: 44100Hz Replaygain: off Duration: 00:00:01.67 In:0.00% 00:00:00.00 [00:00:01.67] Out:0 [|] Clip:0 In:11.1% 00:00:00.19 [00:00:01.49] Out:8.19k [====|====] Clip:0 In:22.2% 00:00:00.37 [00:00:01.30] Out:16.4k [====|====] Clip:0 In:27.8% 00:00:00.46 [00:00:01.21] Out:20.5k [-==|===] Clip:0 In:38.9% 00:00:00.65 [00:00:01.02] Out:28.7k [====|====] Clip:0 In:44.5% 00:00:00.74 [00:00:00.93] Out:32.8k [====|====] Clip:0 In:55.6% 00:00:00.93 [00:00:00.74] Out:41.0k [====|====] Clip:0 In:61.1% 00:00:01.02 [00:00:00.65] Out:45.1k [-==|==] Clip:0 In:72.3% 00:00:01.21 [00:00:00.46] Out:53.2k [====|====] Clip:0 In:77.8% 00:00:01.30 [00:00:00.37] Out:57.3k [====|====] Clip:0 ...`  
Output #3: {"code":0}

So, where now?

Oh, I have also looked at this:  
[Someone with similar problems](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/playing-mp3-audio/8188/11)

That flow works. I hear the sound.

Further complicating the issue - for me at least.

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