Unable to import soundfile

[Molem7b5]

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Unable to import soundfile and I'm presented with the below error message.

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TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
~\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\soundfile.py in <module>
    161     import _soundfile_data  # ImportError if this doesn't exist
--> 162     _path = _os.path.dirname(_soundfile_data.__file__)  # TypeError if __file__ is None
    163     _full_path = _os.path.join(_path, _packaged_libname)

~\anaconda3\lib\ntpath.py in dirname(p)
    220     """Returns the directory component of a pathname"""
--> 221     return split(p)[0]
    222 

~\anaconda3\lib\ntpath.py in split(p)
    182     Either part may be empty."""
--> 183     p = os.fspath(p)
    184     seps = _get_bothseps(p)

TypeError: expected str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not NoneType

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

OSError                                   Traceback (most recent call last)
~\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\soundfile.py in <module>
    170             raise OSError('sndfile library not found using ctypes.util.find_library')
--> 171         _snd = _ffi.dlopen(_libname)
    172 

OSError: cannot load library 'C:\Users\danie\anaconda3\Library\bin\sndfile.dll': error 0x7e

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

OSError                                   Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-5-bb1f00ee4bd6> in <module>
----> 1 import soundfile as sf
      2 

~\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\soundfile.py in <module>
    190             _snd = _ffi.dlopen(_os.path.join(_hbrew_path, _explicit_libname))
    191         else:
--> 192             _snd = _ffi.dlopen(_explicit_libname)
    193 
    194 __libsndfile_version__ = _ffi.string(_snd.sf_version_string()).decode('utf-8', 'replace')

OSError: cannot load library 'libsndfile.dll': error 0x7e

I'm using python 3.7.16 and installed soundfile-0.12.1 using pip install soundfile

[Molem7b5]

Just to add for additional information - I got the above when trying to use soundfile within my base conda environment. When I create a fresh environment it seems to work fine.

[bastibe]

This error clearly originates from anaconda. Something about the libsndile.dll they ship is incompatible with your version of Python. Try updating your pip, possibly update your wheel (pip install --upgrade pip wheel), and then reinstall soundfile. This should give you the binary wheels I publish on Pypi, which should contain compatible versions of libsndfile.