mp3 loading fails

y, sr = librosa.load(“my.mp3”)

Traceback (most recent call last): File “/home/esperanto/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/librosa/core/audio.py”, line 127, in load with sf.SoundFile(path) as sf_desc: File “/home/esperanto/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/soundfile.py”, line 627, in init self._file = self._open(file, mode_int, closefd) File “/home/esperanto/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/soundfile.py”, line 1182, in _open "Error opening {0!r}: ".format(self.name)) File “/home/esperanto/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/soundfile.py”, line 1355, in _error_check raise RuntimeError(prefix + _ffi.string(err_str).decode(‘utf-8’, ‘replace’)) RuntimeError: Error opening ‘my.mp3’: File contains data in an unknown format.

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Linux-4.4.0-17763-Microsoft-x86_64-with-debian-jessie-sid Python 3.6.5 |Anaconda, Inc.| (default, Apr 29 2018, 16:14:56) [GCC 7.2.0] NumPy 1.16.4 SciPy 1.1.0 librosa 0.7.0

[lostanlen]

Hello @nomota, please read this: https://github.com/librosa/librosa#audioread-and-mp3-support

To fuel audioread with more audio-decoding power (e.g., for reading MP3 files), you may need to install either ffmpeg or GStreamer.

Note that on some platforms, audioread needs at least one of the programs to work properly.

If you are using Anaconda, install ffmpeg by calling

conda install -c conda-forge ffmpeg

If you are not using Anaconda, here are some common commands for different operating systems:

• Linux (apt-get): apt-get install ffmpeg or apt-get install gstreamer1.0-plugins-base gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly
• Linux (yum): yum install ffmpeg or yum install gstreamer1.0-plugins-base gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly
• Mac: brew install ffmpeg or brew install gstreamer
• Windows: download binaries from this website

For GStreamer, you also need to install the Python bindings with

pip install pygobject

[its-just-jo]

I’m getting this error even with ffmpeg installed via anaconda.

Are there any other solutions?

RuntimeError: Error opening '/path/000002.mp3': Format not recognised.