Cannot make Librosa run in Mac M1 in arm64 mode

I have a Mac M1 and want to use tensorflow (which in a Mac M1 only runs in arm64 mode, AFAIK) and librosa. After installing miniforge, I could install numba and llvmlite for arm64:

conda install numba -c conda-forge
conda install llvmlite -c conda-forge

and then I could (apparently) install librosa with pip:

pip install librosa

But when trying to import librosa in python, it crashes:

>>> import librosa
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/ajulian/miniforge3/envs/TF24_A3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/soundfile.py", line 143, in <module>
    _snd = _ffi.dlopen(_libname)
OSError: cannot load library '/usr/local/lib/libsndfile.dylib': dlopen(/usr/local/lib/libsndfile.dylib, 2): no suitable image found.  Did find:
	/usr/local/lib/libsndfile.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
	/usr/local/Cellar/libsndfile/1.0.31/lib/libsndfile.1.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Users/ajulian/miniforge3/envs/TF24_A3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/librosa/__init__.py", line 211, in <module>
    from . import core
  File "/Users/ajulian/miniforge3/envs/TF24_A3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/librosa/core/__init__.py", line 6, in <module>
    from .audio import *  # pylint: disable=wildcard-import
  File "/Users/ajulian/miniforge3/envs/TF24_A3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/librosa/core/audio.py", line 8, in <module>
    import soundfile as sf
  File "/Users/ajulian/miniforge3/envs/TF24_A3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/soundfile.py", line 162, in <module>
    _snd = _ffi.dlopen(_os.path.join(
OSError: cannot load library '/Users/ajulian/miniforge3/envs/TF24_A3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/_soundfile_data/libsndfile.dylib': dlopen(/Users/ajulian/miniforge3/envs/TF24_A3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/_soundfile_data/libsndfile.dylib, 2): image not found
>>>

Software versions

macOS-11.2-arm64-i386-64bit
Python 3.8.8 | packaged by conda-forge | (default, Feb 20 2021, 15:50:57) 
[Clang 11.0.1 ]
NumPy 1.20.1
SciPy 1.6.0
Numba 0.52.0
llvmlite 0.35.0

[albertojulian]

Hi, I could finally install librosa in my Mac M1 in arm64 mode the following way:

conda install numba -c conda-forge
conda install llvmlite -c conda-forge
conda install libsndfile -c conda-forge 
pip install librosa

So you can close the issue.

[wolfv]

Libsndfile isn’t and a migrator will migrate it on conda-forge