beat.beat_track gives error: ufunc '_cabs2' did not contain a loop

[PasqualeTotaro]

Hi,

I trying to run the first tutorial like below

import librosa

# 1. Get the file path to an included audio example
y, sr = librosa.load(librosa.ex('nutcracker'))

# Set the hop length; at 22050 Hz, 512 samples ~= 23ms
hop_length = 512

# Separate harmonics and percussives into two waveforms
y_harmonic, y_percussive = librosa.effects.hpss(y)
# plt.plot(y_percussive)

# Beat track on the percussive signal
tempo, beat_frames = librosa.beat.beat_track(y=y_percussive,
                                             sr=sr)

print('Estimated tempo: {:.2f} beats per minute'.format(tempo))

but I get the following error on beat_tracker:

Exception has occurred: _UFuncNoLoopError
ufunc '_cabs2' did not contain a loop with signature matching types <class 'numpy.dtype[complex128]'> -> None
  File "/Users/pasquale/Documents/Projects/ODD/Software/Jam Prototype/metadata/main.py", line 23, in <module>
    tempo, beat_frames = librosa.beat.beat_track(y=y_percussive,
numpy.core._exceptions._UFuncNoLoopError: ufunc '_cabs2' did not contain a loop with signature matching types <class 'numpy.dtype[complex128]'> -> None

[bmcfee]

Please fill out the issue template correctly with details about your environment.

I was able to run (more or less) the example as described with the 0.10.0 release:

In [1]: import librosa

In [2]: y, sr = librosa.load(librosa.ex('nutcracker'))

In [3]: yh, yp = librosa.effects.hpss(y)

In [4]: yp
Out[4]: 
array([ 1.3060981e-06,  3.4135082e-06, -4.7504541e-06, ...,
        4.0520217e-06,  7.1086342e-06,  3.9290107e-06], dtype=float32)

In [5]: librosa.beat.beat_track(y=yp, sr=sr)
Out[5]: 
(
    107.666015625,
    array([  51,   74,  100,  124,  149,  173,  198,  221,  246,  270,  295,
        319,  344,  367,  393,  415,  439,  461,  485,  507,  531,  554,
        577,  600,  623,  646,  669,  692,  716,  739,  762,  785,  807,
        831,  855,  877,  900,  923,  946,  969,  993, 1015, 1038, 1061,
       1085, 1107, 1131, 1155, 1178, 1201, 1225, 1248, 1272, 1296, 1320,
       1344, 1368, 1392, 1414, 1437, 1460, 1483, 1505, 1527, 1550, 1573,
       1595, 1618, 1641, 1664, 1688, 1712, 1735, 1758, 1782, 1806, 1829,
       1852, 1876, 1900, 1924, 1947, 1971, 1994, 2018, 2041, 2064, 2087,
       2110, 2132, 2155, 2177, 2200, 2222, 2244, 2266, 2289, 2312, 2335,
       2357, 2380, 2404, 2427, 2451, 2474, 2498, 2521, 2544, 2568, 2592,
       2615, 2638, 2661, 2684, 2706, 2728, 2752, 2775, 2797, 2819, 2842,
       2864, 2887, 2910, 2933, 2955, 2978, 3001, 3024, 3050, 3075, 3100,
       3125, 3150, 3174, 3199, 3223, 3246, 3269, 3295, 3317, 3340, 3362,
       3385, 3409, 3432, 3456, 3480, 3508, 3533, 3560, 3585, 3612, 3637,
       3663, 3688, 3714, 3740, 3766, 3791, 3816, 3841, 3866, 3890, 3915,
       3940, 3965, 3989, 4014, 4038, 4063, 4087, 4111, 4135, 4159, 4183,
       4208, 4231, 4255, 4279, 4304, 4327, 4351, 4374, 4399, 4422, 4447,
       4471, 4495, 4519, 4543, 4567, 4590, 4614, 4638, 4662, 4686, 4709,
       4734, 4758, 4781, 4805, 4829, 4853, 4877, 4901, 4925, 4949, 4973,
       4997, 5021])
)

[PasqualeTotaro]

I am on Mac OS Venture 13.2. Using python 3.10.2 and librosa 0.10.0.

Running everything via VS code.

[bmcfee]

Can you please include the output of librosa.show_versions() here?

[PasqualeTotaro]

Of course

INSTALLED VERSIONS
------------------
python: 3.10.2 (v3.10.2:a58ebcc701, Jan 13 2022, 14:50:16) [Clang 13.0.0 (clang-1300.0.29.30)]

librosa: 0.10.0

audioread: 3.0.0
numpy: 1.22.2
scipy: 1.10.1
sklearn: 1.2.1
joblib: 1.2.0
decorator: 5.1.1
numba: 0.56.4
soundfile: 0.12.1
pooch: v1.6.0
soxr: 0.3.3
typing_extensions: installed, no version number available
lazy_loader: installed, no version number available
msgpack: 1.0.4

numpydoc: None
sphinx: None
sphinx_rtd_theme: None
matplotlib: 3.7.0
sphinx_multiversion: None
sphinx_gallery: None
mir_eval: None
ipython: None
sphinxcontrib.rsvgconverter: None
pytest: None
pytest_mpl: None
pytest_cov: None
samplerate: None
resampy: None
presets: None
packaging: 23.0

[bmcfee]

Thanks - that's very strange. The error you're reporting indicates that the abs2 helper is not defined for complex128, but this is explicitly so here:

https://github.com/librosa/librosa/blob/1f770e8fa778a548111204192757043d0313a010/librosa/util/utils.py#L2472-L2477

I suspected a numba issue was the cause, but we're on the same version (0.56.4), so that can't be it.

Are you able to run the example code snippets in the librosa.util.abs2 docstring?

[PasqualeTotaro]

I can't.

here is the output

librosa.util.abs2(3 + 4j)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/librosa/util/utils.py", line 2514, in abs2
    y = _cabs2(x)
numpy.core._exceptions._UFuncNoLoopError: ufunc '_cabs2' did not contain a loop with signature matching types <class 'numpy.dtype[complex128]'> -> None

and

librosa.util.abs2((0.5j)**np.arange(8))
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/librosa/util/utils.py", line 2514, in abs2
    y = _cabs2(x)
numpy.core._exceptions._UFuncNoLoopError: ufunc '_cabs2' did not contain a loop with signature matching types <class 'numpy.dtype[complex128]'> -> None

[bmcfee]

Ok, thanks for checking. I'm rather stumped here, as I've been unable to replicate this behavior. The only substantive difference between our environments that I can see is numpy 1.22.2 (yours) vs 1.23.5 (mine). However, nothing in the release notes (or my understanding of how these things work) suggests a change that would produce this behavior, and we do include numpy==1.20.3 and numba==0.51.0 in our minimal dependency test environment (which works).

The only other thing that comes to mind is that it appears that you've installed librosa in a system-wide environment (as super-user?), and that does occasionally cause trouble with numba when it can't cache the compiled function objects on disk. Usually this looks more like an indefinite hang on import, but I wonder if the behavior you're seeing is related?

We could test this hypothesis by changing the NUMBA_CACHE_DIR environment variable to something that your user has write permissions to, as noted here https://librosa.org/doc/latest/troubleshooting.html#import-librosa-hangs-indefinitely at the bottom.

[PasqualeTotaro]

Good news, I have upgraded numpy and numba. Now it works!

Thank you for the helping me out.

[bmcfee]

Huh, well i'm glad it's working! But it would be nice to know what the problem was. I'll close this issue for now, but perhaps we can reopen it if it recurs in the future.