Can't Import Soundfile Python
While Using Import Soundfile on Wither Python3 or Python I Am Getting: Traceback (Most Recent Call Last): File "", Line 1, in File "/Home/Erezsh/...
while using import soundfile on wither python3 or python I am getting:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "/home/erezsh/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/soundfile.py", line 142, in raise OSError('sndfile library not found') OSError: sndfile library not found
I found this post which did not help because I am using soundfile and not pysoundfile and the link it offers is broken.
Also, here I could not find a solution since I have installed using pip install SoundFile.
I am using Ubuntu shell on windows. Is this of any importance?
How do I solve this?
5 Answers
You need to install the needed library:
On Linux, you need to install libsndfile using your distribution’s package manager, for example
sudo apt-get install libsndfile1.
handras answer (from 2019) is not working now (in 2020) so install libsndfile1 via ( as A.B.)
sudo apt-get install libsndfile1-dev
Try using the conda installation is you do not have sudo priviliges.
It worked for me, while I continued to face issues via the pip installation.
conda install -c conda-forge librosa
The above command installs librosa. You might be able to find a specific one for only soundfile too.
UPDATE: Needed to run apt update first, and it worked.
The accepted answer at first did not work for me.
I'm inside a docker image:
apt-get install libsndfile1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libsndfile1
in case of yum package manager users first install the dependency
sudo yum -y install libsndfile
afterwards run the pip installs
pip install SoundFile
pip install librosa
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