I'm using Anaconda and I'm trying to import soundfile/pysoundfile.

I installed the package by running

 conda install -c conda-forge pysoundfile 

and I think it succeeded because when I run

 conda list 

it shows up:

pyopenssl                 17.2.0           py36h5d7bf08_0  
pyparsing                 2.2.0            py36hb281f35_0  
pyqt                      5.6.0            py36he5c6137_6  
pysocks                   1.6.7            py36hfa33cec_1  
pysoundfile               0.10.1           py_0            conda-forge
pytables                  3.4.2            py36hfbd7ab0_2  
pytest                    3.2.1            py36h9963153_1  

To make sure I'm running the "right" python, I've tried running

which python

and I get

 /anaconda3/bin/python

But when I open python and try running

import soundfile 

I get the following:

Traceback (most recent call last):File "/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/soundfile.py", line 142, in <module>raise OSError('sndfile library not found')
OSError: sndfile library not foundDuring handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:Traceback (most recent call last):File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>File "/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/soundfile.py", line 163, in <module>_path, '_soundfile_data', _libname))
OSError: cannot load library '/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/_soundfile_data/libsndfile.dylib': dlopen(/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/_soundfile_data/libsndfile.dylib, 2): image not found

Out of curiosity I opened the soundfile.py file with a text editor to see what line 142 looked like, and it looks like this:

try:_libname = _find_library('sndfile')if _libname is None:raise OSError('sndfile library not found')      # <---- line 142_snd = _ffi.dlopen(_libname)
except OSError:if _sys.platform == 'darwin':_libname = 'libsndfile.dylib'elif _sys.platform == 'win32':from platform import architecture as _architecture_libname = 'libsndfile' + _architecture()[0] + '.dll'else:raise# hack for packaging tools like cx_Freeze, which# compress all scripts into a zip file# which causes __file__ to be inside this zip file_path = _os.path.dirname(_os.path.abspath(__file__))while not _os.path.isdir(_path):_path = _os.path.abspath(_os.path.join(_path, '..'))_snd = _ffi.dlopen(_os.path.join(_path, '_soundfile_data', _libname))

In the docs, it says "import soundfile" is the correct way to import, but I also tried

import pysoundfile 

and only got

Traceback (most recent call last):File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pysoundfile'

Is there anyone who knows why this is happening? I'm running this on MacOS btw.

• I experienced this error as a result of using the librosa library, which uses SoundFile
  • The OSError seems to occur because SoundFile is an older version.
  • GitHub-librosa: Cannot load when importing librosas #1117
  • librosa seems to install, and should work with pysoundfile, but in my experience, it did not.
    • Remove pysoundfile: conda remove pysoundfile --force-remove
• 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.
• This worked on Windows 10 with Anaconda, python 3.8.11, SoundFile 0.10.3.post1, librosa 0.8.1