Can't load voice in

[TheAwesomeYT]

Hey guys, whenever I try to load my voice sample, I keep getting either just
Exception:
or
Exception: expected str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not Nonetype
Please help!

[ghost]

Try clicking the "Browse" button in the toolbox to load your own file.

The "Load" button only works if you have a dataset loaded.

[TheAwesomeYT]

When I use "Browse", it just says 'Exception: '

[ghost]

Can you copy and paste the error message and traceback from the terminal? We need more info to troubleshoot the issue.

[TheAwesomeYT]

Sure, here you go:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\HP Pavilion\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\librosa\core\audio.py", line 129, in load
    with sf.SoundFile(path) as sf_desc:
  File "C:\Users\HP Pavilion\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\soundfile.py", line 629, in __init__
    self._file = self._open(file, mode_int, closefd)
  File "C:\Users\HP Pavilion\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\soundfile.py", line 1184, in _open
    "Error opening {0!r}: ".format(self.name))
  File "C:\Users\HP Pavilion\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\soundfile.py", line 1357, in _error_check
    raise RuntimeError(prefix + _ffi.string(err_str).decode('utf-8', 'replace'))
RuntimeError: Error opening 'D:\\cdfiles\\voicesamplecd.mp3': File contains data in an unknown format.

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\HP Pavilion\Downloads\Real-Time-Voice-Cloning-master\toolbox\__init__.py", line 77, in <lambda>
    func = lambda: self.load_from_browser(self.ui.browse_file())
  File "C:\Users\HP Pavilion\Downloads\Real-Time-Voice-Cloning-master\toolbox\__init__.py", line 119, in load_from_browser
    wav = Synthesizer.load_preprocess_wav(fpath)
  File "C:\Users\HP Pavilion\Downloads\Real-Time-Voice-Cloning-master\synthesizer\inference.py", line 111, in load_preprocess_wav
    wav = librosa.load(str(fpath), hparams.sample_rate)[0]
  File "C:\Users\HP Pavilion\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\librosa\core\audio.py", line 162, in load
    y, sr_native = __audioread_load(path, offset, duration, dtype)
  File "C:\Users\HP Pavilion\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\librosa\core\audio.py", line 186, in __audioread_load
    with audioread.audio_open(path) as input_file:
  File "C:\Users\HP Pavilion\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\audioread\__init__.py", line 116, in audio_open
    raise NoBackendError()
audioread.exceptions.NoBackendError

[ghost]

Take a look at librosa/librosa#219, you may need to install a backend.

Edit: The person who had this same issue in #386 resolved this by installing ffmpeg on windows.

[ghost]

Closing issue as the "no backend" error is an issue with the user's configuration and not the repo code. If this did not fix your problem, please reopen the issue.

[Soul0702]

hey! i kept on getting this message each time i tries loading a sample audio file. please i need help

File "C:\Users\PC\Desktop\voice\toolbox_init_.py", line 94, in
func = lambda: self.load_from_browser(self.ui.browse_file())
File "C:\Users\PC\Desktop\voice\toolbox_init_.py", line 160, in load_from_browser
self.add_real_utterance(wav, name, speaker_name)
File "C:\Users\PC\Desktop\voice\toolbox_init_.py", line 180, in add_real_utterance
encoder_wav = encoder.preprocess_wav(wav)
File "C:\Users\PC\Desktop\voice\encoder\audio.py", line 48, in preprocess_wav
wav = trim_long_silences(wav)
File "C:\Users\PC\Desktop\voice\encoder\audio.py", line 83, in trim_long_silences
pcm_wave = struct.pack("%dh" % len(wav), *(bool(wav * int16_max)).astype(np.int16))
ValueError: The truth value of an array with more than one element is ambiguous. Use a.any() or a.all()