Apple M1 installation and usage

Executing pip install SoundFile on an M1, installs just fine using generic wheel:

  Using cached SoundFile-0.10.3.post1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (21 kB)

But trying to import soundfile shows the libsndfile as missing:

Python 3.9.4 (default, Apr 22 2021, 12:00:49)
[Clang 12.0.0 (clang-1200.0.32.29)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import soundfile
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "...venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/soundfile.py", line 142, in <module>
    raise OSError('sndfile library not found')
OSError: sndfile library not found

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "...venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/soundfile.py", line 162, in <module>
    _snd = _ffi.dlopen(_os.path.join(
OSError: cannot load library '...venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/_soundfile_data/libsndfile.dylib': dlopen(...venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/_soundfile_data/libsndfile.dylib, 2): image not found
>>>

Installing the libsndfile through brew, is not picked up either.

[stefan-balke]

Quick workaround for everybody.

Add: export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/homebrew/lib:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH"

to your ~/.zshrc.

[chuma9615]

Any news on this release? I’d really like to use this package on my M1 machine 😬