Cannot load when importing librosas

[linwanting]

Cannot load when importing librosa, conda local installation, version 0.7.2, the error code is as follows

import librosa
Traceback (most recent call last):

File "G:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\soundfile-0.10.3.post1-py3.7.egg\soundfile.py", line 142, in
raise OSError('sndfile library not found')

OSError: sndfile library not found

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "", line 1, in
import librosa

File "G:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\librosa-0.7.2-py3.7.egg\librosa_init_.py", line 12, in
from . import core

File "G:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\librosa-0.7.2-py3.7.egg\librosa\core_init_.py", line 126, in
from .audio import * # pylint: disable=wildcard-import

File "G:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\librosa-0.7.2-py3.7.egg\librosa\core\audio.py", line 10, in
import soundfile as sf

File "G:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\soundfile-0.10.3.post1-py3.7.egg\soundfile.py", line 163, in
_path, '_soundfile_data', _libname))

OSError: cannot load library 'G:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\soundfile-0.10.3.post1-py3.7.egg_soundfile_data\libsndfile64bit.dll': error 0x7e

[bmcfee]

This problem is coming from libsndfile, a dependency of soundfile, not librosa.

Did you install librosa (and its dependencies) from conda-forge or pip? I recommend conda-forge if you're already in a conda environment, as that should settle the binary dependency issues. You should probably uninstall soundfile first before proceding though.

[bmcfee]

Closing this out, as this is an upstream issue and we can't do anything about it in librosa.

[trenton3983]

You should probably uninstall soundfile first before proceding though.

This was an ineffective resolution.

• For those using an Anaconda distribution, SoundFile is not available for a conda install.
• In my case I had already done pip uninstall SoundFile, which then lead to an import error that the package couldn't be found
• Then I did pip install SoundFile, which installed a newer version and resolved the error.
• The solution seems to be pip install SoundFile --upgrade
• This worked on Windows 10 with Anaconda, and python 3.8.11

[bmcfee]

For those using an Anaconda distribution, SoundFile is not available for a conda install.

I did explicitly say conda-forge, not conda. It is definitely available on conda-forge.

[trenton3983]

In my case, librosa was installed from the conda-forge channel.

conda-forge is just a channel of conda. SoundFile does not show up. However pysoundfile does. Are they the same?

conda-forge / packages / pysoundfile 0.10.3.post1

conda install -c conda-forge pysoundfile

This does not seem to work as a substitute for SoundFile.

[bmcfee]

Yes, they are the same. The package naming here is unfortunate, but out of our control.

[trenton3983]

Now I see, as you stated, it's the order of operation.

1. pip uninstall SoundFile
2. conda install -c conda-forge librosa
   • This will then properly install and use pysoundfile as a dependency

However, those finding this issue will likely have already installed librosa without removing SoundFile.

As I have just experienced, uninstalling librosa can lead to other issues because of file dependency removal with conda (even when using --force.

If librosa is installed already, then just update SoundFile: pip install SoundFile --upgrade