I am trying to install librosa on Anaconda environment, I created a completely new and installed librosa, however I keep getting this problem, even when I re-install cffi package, audioread and others. I am not sure how I can fix this problem.
AttributeError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-4-d10be33b41bf> in <module>
1 # load files with librosa as a series of floating points
----> 2 debussy, sr = librosa.load(debussy_file)
~\.conda\envs\librosa\lib\site-packages\librosa\core\audio.py in load(path, sr, mono, offset, duration, dtype, res_type)
144
145 try:
--> 146 with sf.SoundFile(path) as sf_desc:
147 sr_native = sf_desc.samplerate
148 if offset:
~\.conda\envs\librosa\lib\site-packages\soundfile.py in __init__(self, file, mode, samplerate, channels, subtype, endian, format, closefd)
625 self._info = _create_info_struct(file, mode, samplerate, channels,
626 format, subtype, endian)
--> 627 self._file = self._open(file, mode_int, closefd)
628 if set(mode).issuperset('r+') and self.seekable():
629 # Move write position to 0 (like in Python file objects)
~\.conda\envs\librosa\lib\site-packages\soundfile.py in _open(self, file, mode_int, closefd)
1168 if isinstance(file, _unicode):
1169 if _sys.platform == 'win32':
-> 1170 openfunction = _snd.sf_wchar_open
1171 else:
1172 file = file.encode(_sys.getfilesystemencoding())
AttributeError: cffi library 'C:\Users\User\.conda\envs\librosa\Library\bin\sndfile.dll' has no function, constant or global variable named 'sf_wchar_open'
I don't know the real fix for this but deleting that code from soundfile.py solved it for me.
Just delete the if loop at line 1170 and modify it to:
if isinstance(file, _unicode):
file = file.encode(_sys.getfilesystemencoding())
The error no longer occurs. I am looking for someone to explain why and how but for now, this works mate!