Read MP3 in Python 3

Question

What I want to do is simply

mp3 = read_mp3(mp3_filename)
audio_left = mp3.audio_channels[0]

where audio_left will contain raw PCM audio dat

Answer 1

I ended up using an mpg123 subprocess to convert the mp3 to wav, and then I use scipy.io.wavfile.read to read the wav file.