spleeter: ffprobe Error

ok guys… so I don’t know if this will help anyone or not - but I was researching, installing all sorts of shit (i’m a newbie here) over and over and kept replicating the same problem that we are all having.

I installed via pip, homebrew, and everyway I could follow or find but with no results.

I did the same with ffmpeg using above methods (homebrew etc) still same result.

Then I noticed another folder called spleeter INSIDE the spleeter folder that had been created by the installs. When I shifted my file into that folder ie. ‘/User/###/spleeter/spleeter’ - it worked without a hitch. no more this ffprobe or 0-6.00 errors and the rest. It just worked. Now, maybe this is the way it was meant to work all along, but with respect to the creators/devs, the manual didn’t mention this? (put the file in spleeter/spleeter) or perhaps it did… but with the complicated installs and jumping around webpages… i could have missed it. The odd thing, is that the audio example is still in the top folder… so IDK -wtf is going on. lol. The guide is not easy for newbie people who’ve never used command lines, things like pip or homebrew and terminal concepts. But I did get it working and my troubles were rewarded, but still don’t know if it was luck or a solution…?. hopefully, it may help or steer others and get it working for them. I included a screenshot in hopes it may help… but I’ve done about 10 rips at 2 track and 5 track and its bloody worth the effort. Thank you so much to the developers for this! but… can we make some sort of graphical interface or an easier streamlined process would be amazing!!

Much respect and honour to the devs/users, and i’m crossing fingers this just may work for someone. Cheers.

Hi

Got the same issue with docker as well

docker run -v $(pwd)/output:/output spleeter:cpu separate -i audio_example_new.mp3 -o /output
INFO:spleeter:Downloading model archive https://github.com/deezer/spleeter/releases/download/v1.4.0/2stems.tar.gz
INFO:spleeter:Extracting downloaded 2stems archive
INFO:spleeter:2stems model file(s) extracted
OMP: Info #212: KMP_AFFINITY: decoding x2APIC ids.
OMP: Info #213: KMP_AFFINITY: x2APIC ids not unique - decoding legacy APIC ids.
OMP: Info #149: KMP_AFFINITY: Affinity capable, using global cpuid info
OMP: Info #154: KMP_AFFINITY: Initial OS proc set respected: 0-3
OMP: Info #156: KMP_AFFINITY: 4 available OS procs
OMP: Info #157: KMP_AFFINITY: Uniform topology
OMP: Info #159: KMP_AFFINITY: 4 packages x 1 cores/pkg x 1 threads/core (4 total cores)
OMP: Info #214: KMP_AFFINITY: OS proc to physical thread map:
OMP: Info #171: KMP_AFFINITY: OS proc 0 maps to package 0 
OMP: Info #171: KMP_AFFINITY: OS proc 1 maps to package 1 
OMP: Info #171: KMP_AFFINITY: OS proc 2 maps to package 2 
OMP: Info #171: KMP_AFFINITY: OS proc 3 maps to package 3 
OMP: Info #250: KMP_AFFINITY: pid 1 tid 1 thread 0 bound to OS proc set 0
OMP: Info #250: KMP_AFFINITY: pid 1 tid 51 thread 1 bound to OS proc set 1
INFO:spleeter:Loading audio b'audio_example_new.mp3' from 0.0 to 600.0
WARNING:spleeter:ffprobe error (see stderr output for detail)

I did an initial install of CPU version and successfully stemmed a few tracks/. Installed the GPU and abandoned it due to being on a VM. Went back to CPU and received the ffprobe error. Came here read up and in stalled via (git clone https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git ffmpeg )

Not only did it FIX the ffprobe error but I feel like the quality of the sounds of the stems vastly improved.

Ok thanks let me also see further into this

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On Nov 13, 2019, at 10:49 AM, pfeffigraf notifications@github.com wrote:

My suspicion is that the ffmpeg windows executable is not installed. (Even though python wrapper for ffmpeg is installed) Are you able to call it from command prompt ? If not you can look at this install instructions http://blog.gregzaal.com/how-to-install-ffmpeg-on-windows/ … Sent from my iPhone On Nov 13, 2019, at 9:23 AM, johnny2523 @.***> wrote: I have the same issue with windows here. First I installed ffmpeg with git clone https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git and installed spleeter with pip install spleeter. After creating the environment I get the same ffprobe error: (spleeter-cpu) PS C:\Users\mixme> spleeter separate -i audio_example.mp3 -o audio_output INFO:spleeter:Loading audio b’audio_example.mp3’ from 0.0 to 600.0 WARNING:spleeter:ffprobe error (see stderr output for detail) I ran ffprobe audio_example.mp3 and don’t seem to have any issues: Any solutions? I for example don’t know how to run a stderr output. I googled it but didn’t find something helpful… I dont know how to do that either, i been trying to find that out myself. — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.

Thank you for your quick response. I tried this but unfortunately it didn’t solve this problem. I added this path and don’t get an error after running ffmpeg -codecs. But ffprobe error still is there… 😦

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Ok this is indeed the expected behavior. the separation command goes: spleeter separate -i <path_to_audio_file> -o <path_to_audio_output_dir> where the path_to_audio_file parameter must be a valid path and depends on where you are executing the command.

if your audio file home.mp3 is in the current directory (the directory in which you are executing the command) then the right call is just spleeter separate -i home.mp3. The additionnal spleeter here in the example provided is to indicate that the audio file is located there.

For Docker, you can solve this problem by reading the section that starts with ‘For using your own audio file you will need to create contain…’ on the Usage page of the wiki