Machine Learning, SoundFile module problem

Question

I am trying to load an audio file using librosa for an audio classification project. However, when I run the code, I get an OSError with the message cannot load library 'C:\Users\beek6\anaconda3\envs\tensorflow2\Library\bin\sndfile.dll': error 0x7e. The relevant code snippet is:

audio_file_path = '17973-2-0-32.wav'
librosa_audio_data, librosa_sample_rate = librosa.load(audio_file_path)

Additionally, I get the following error traceback:

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ModuleNotFoundError                       Traceback (most recent call last)
File ~\anaconda3\envs\tensorflow2\lib\site-packages\soundfile.py:161
    159     raise OSError('no packaged library for this platform')
--> 161 import _soundfile_data  # ImportError if this doesn't exist
    162 _path = _os.path.dirname(_soundfile_data.__file__)  # TypeError if __file__ is None

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_soundfile_data'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

OSError                                   Traceback (most recent call last)
File ~\anaconda3\envs\tensorflow2\lib\site-packages\soundfile.py:171
    170         raise OSError('sndfile library not found using ctypes.util.find_library')
--> 171     _snd = _ffi.dlopen(_libname)
    173 except OSError:
    174     # Try explicit file name, if the general does not work (e.g. on nixos)

OSError: cannot load library 'C:\Users\beek6\anaconda3\envs\tensorflow2\Library\bin\sndfile.dll': error 0x7e

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

OSError                                   Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[11], line 2
    1 audio_file_path = '17973-2-0-32.wav'
----> 2 librosa_audio_data, librosa_sample_rate = librosa.load(audio_file_path)

File ~\anaconda3\envs\tensorflow2\lib\site-packages\lazy_loader\__init__.py:77, in attach.<locals>.__getattr__(name)
     75 submod_path = f"{package_name}.{attr_to_modules[name]}"
     76 submod = importlib.import_module(submod_path)
---> 77 attr = getattr(submod, name)
     79 # If the attribute lives in a file (module) with the same
     80 # name as the attribute, ensure that the attribute and *not*
     81 # the module is accessible on the package.
     82 if name == attr_to_modules[name]:

File ~\anaconda3\envs\tensorflow2\lib\site-packages\lazy_loader\__init__.py:76, in attach.<locals>.__getattr__(name)
     74 elif name in attr_to_modules:
     75     submod_path = f"{package_name}.{attr_to_modules[name]}"
---> 76     submod = importlib.import_module(submod_path)
     77     attr = getattr(submod, name)
     79     # If the attribute lives in a file (module) with the same
     80     # name as the attribute, ensure that the attribute and *not*
     81     # the module is accessible on the package.

File ~\anaconda3\envs\tensorflow2\lib\importlib\__init__.py:127 in import_module(name, package)
    125             break
    126         level += 1
--> 127 return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)

File <frozen importlib._bootstrap>:1030 in _gcd_import(name, package, level)

File <frozen importlib._bootstrap>:1007 in _find_and_load(name, import_)

File <frozen importlib._bootstrap>:986 in _find_and_load_unlocked(name, import_)

File <frozen importlib._bootstrap>:680 in _load_unlocked(spec)

File <frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>:850 in exec_module(self, module)

File <frozen importlib._bootstrap>:228 in _call_with_frames_removed(f, *args, **kwds)

File ~\anaconda3\envs\tensorflow2\lib\site-packages\librosa\core\audio.py:10
    7 import pathlib
    8 import warnings
--> 10 import soundfile as sf
    11 import audioread
    12 import numpy as np

File ~\anaconda3\envs\tensorflow2\lib\site-packages\soundfile.py:192
    190             _snd = _ffi.dlopen(_os.path.join(_hbrew_path, _explicit_libname))
    191         else:
--> 192             _snd = _ffi.dlopen(_explicit_libname)
    194 __libsndfile_version__ = _ffi.string(_snd.sf_version_string()).decode('utf-8', 'replace')
    195 if __libsndfile_version__.startswith('libsndfile-'):

OSError: cannot load library 'libsndfile.dll': error 0xc1

What is causing this problem and how can I fix it?