[FIXED] google colab tensorflow-io audio error undefined symbol in system library?

Issue

I'm trying to open audio files in Google Colab using the TensorFlow library, I'm following this example from their wiki.

pip installs the package just fine but then the function call to

audio = tfio.audio.AudioIOTensor('gs://cloud-samples-tests/speech/brooklyn.flac')

With the following error:

NotImplementedError: unable to open file: libtensorflow_io.so, from paths: ['/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/tensorflow_io/python/ops/libtensorflow_io.so']
caused by: ['/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/tensorflow_io/python/ops/libtensorflow_io.so: undefined symbol: _ZNK10tensorflow4data11DatasetBase8FinalizeEPNS_15OpKernelContextESt8functionIFN3tsl8StatusOrINS5_4core11RefCountPtrIS1_EEEEvEE']

I've checked out trough ls and objdump and the .so file is present, it seems the problem is with function _ZNK10tensorflow4data11DatasetBase8FinalizeEPNS_15OpKernelContextESt8functionIFN3tsl8StatusOrINS5_4core11RefCountPtrIS1_EEEEvEE

Why?

I've tried to re-install the libraries and change the backed from CPU to T4 GPU to no avail

Solution

easy, here's the fix

!pip install tensorflow==2.10.0 tensorflow-io==0.27.0

maybe tfio.audio.AudioIOTensor is not available in the latest version

Answered By - alessandro