How can I change the default download location for models?

[tomiezhang]

How can I change the default download location for models? Currently, it is set to ~/.cache/huggingface, but I want to change it to a different location. THX！！！！

[stmolivier]

There is no setup for this. In generation.py, change

CACHE_DIR = os.path.join(os.getenv("XDG_CACHE_HOME", default_cache_dir), "suno", "bark_v0")

and add your location in your environment for XDG_CACHE_HOME @see https://github.com/suno-ai/bark#-faq for more info duplicate of https://github.com/suno-ai/bark/issues/197

[keetruda69]

Set system PATH variable and reboot PC. Next dowload or prompt to HF model will check new path

[Paillat-dev]

Set system PATH variable and reboot PC. Next dowload or prompt to HF model will check new path

You don't need to. You can do it this way:

# DO NOT IMPORT BARK YET, FIRST THEESE LINES:
import os
os.environ["XDG_CACHE_HOME"] = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), "bark_cache") #replace this by whatever you want the cache path to be
# NOW YOU CAN IMPORT BARK HERE

at the top of your file.

[dstults]

You can do it this way

This is awesome, thank you.

For anyone that had to download the files manually or needs to manually procure and place the files, the directory structure is

./your_script.py
./bark_cache/suno/bark_v0/*.pt
./bark_cache/suno/bark_v0/torch/hub/checkpoints/encodec_*.th