🔒 Trouble loading Opus on Mac | Python | Page 1

leaden salmon Jun 24, 2025, 6:00 PM

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Hello! I am trying to make a discord bot that will join a vc and will play music. But when I run my code it joins the vc fine, but when it goes to play the music my terminal says it couldn't load opus. Any help would be appreciated!

Here is my code: https://paste.pythondiscord.com/KJKQ

Here is what i have installed: https://paste.pythondiscord.com/PZTQ

Here is the error it keeps giving me: https://paste.pythondiscord.com/OSIA

I currently am on:
pip 25.1.1
Python 3.13.5

Any help is much appreciated I prob tried to get this fixed for at least like 4 hours last night and couldn't figure out anything... 😭

tawdry shardBOT Jun 24, 2025, 6:00 PM

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leaden salmon Hello! I am trying to make a discord bot that will join a vc and will play music...

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@leaden salmon

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tired geyser Jun 24, 2025, 6:04 PM

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https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html?highlight=voice client#voiceclient

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notice what the warning box says

In order to use PCM based AudioSources, you must have the opus library installed on your system and loaded through opus.load_opus(). Otherwise, your AudioSources must be opus encoded (e.g. using FFmpegOpusAudio) or the library will not be able to transmit audio.

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the error is telling you that that you've not loaded opus

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in order to load it you have to first intall it

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do you have homebrew?

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https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html?highlight=voice client#discord.opus.load_opus
additionally, this tells me that the loading is automatic on linux and windows, it doesn't mention macos so this leads me to believe you either have to load it manually with that function or it's not supported on macos, but it wouldn't hurt to try.

leaden salmon Jun 24, 2025, 6:08 PM

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tired geyser in order to load it you have to first intall it

I installed it with homebrew

tired geyser Jun 24, 2025, 6:09 PM

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is it symlinked to path?

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im going to go eat rq brb

leaden salmon Jun 24, 2025, 6:10 PM

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tired geyser is it symlinked to path?

i have no clue what that is lol

tired geyser Jun 24, 2025, 6:34 PM

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@leaden salmon okay i'm back, just to make sure, you installed discord.py as follows right? pip install -U "discord.py[voice]"

secondly, can you show me what brew info opus gives you?

thirdly, can you put print("opus is loaded: ", discord.opus.is_loaded()) anywhere in your code, run it and show me what it prints?

leaden salmon Jun 24, 2025, 6:38 PM

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yeah

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yes I did install pip install -U "discord.py[voice]"

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brew info opus gave me

Audio codec
https://www.opus-codec.org/
Installed
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/opus/1.5.2 (16 files, 1MB) *
  Poured from bottle using the formulae.brew.sh API on 2024-08-12 at 10:39:25
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/o/opus.rb
License: BSD-3-Clause
==> Options
--HEAD
        Install HEAD version
==> Analytics
install: 22,890 (30 days), 66,212 (90 days), 302,705 (365 days)
install-on-request: 542 (30 days), 2,205 (90 days), 8,847 (365 days)
build-error: 0 (30 days)```

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@tired geyser

tired geyser Jun 24, 2025, 6:40 PM

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looks okay so far

leaden salmon Jun 24, 2025, 6:40 PM

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when i put print("opus is loaded: ", discord.opus.is_loaded()) in my code it said
opus is loaded: False

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well the whole output was

2025-06-24 13:39:29 INFO     discord.client logging in using static token
2025-06-24 13:39:29 INFO     discord.gateway Shard ID None has connected to Gateway (Session ID: 547445b49d33046e1cbd1c85c337d561).```

tired geyser Jun 24, 2025, 6:41 PM

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okay, can you cd into /opt/homebrew/lib and write ls and show me the output?

leaden salmon Jun 24, 2025, 6:41 PM

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yeah

tawdry shardBOT Jun 24, 2025, 6:41 PM

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leaden salmon Jun 24, 2025, 6:41 PM

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is it fine like that?

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or do you want paste bin?

tired geyser Jun 24, 2025, 6:42 PM

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pastebin please 🙂

leaden salmon Jun 24, 2025, 6:42 PM

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https://paste.pythondiscord.com/4Z3Q

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should it say opus somewhere in there?

tired geyser Jun 24, 2025, 6:44 PM

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can you put this discord.opus.load_opus("libopus.dylib") above your bot.run() call

leaden salmon Jun 24, 2025, 6:45 PM

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Yeah... now it just says 2025-06-24 13:45:28 INFO discord.client logging in using static token 2025-06-24 13:45:29 INFO discord.gateway Shard ID None has connected to Gateway (Session ID: 7b3af5208fa11a8c4426f74dcde3d71f).

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id doesn't say if opus was loaded or not

tired geyser Jun 24, 2025, 6:46 PM

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where did you put the print for opus status?

leaden salmon Jun 24, 2025, 6:46 PM

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tired geyser where did you put the print for opus status?

in the line above but.run()

tired geyser Jun 24, 2025, 6:47 PM

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discord.opus.load_opus("libopus.dylib")
print("opus is loaded: ", discord.opus.is_loaded())
bot.run(token)

leaden salmon Jun 24, 2025, 6:49 PM

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2025-06-24 13:48:32 INFO     discord.client logging in using static token
2025-06-24 13:48:33 INFO     discord.gateway Shard ID None has connected to Gateway (Session ID: e29825b4084f9186c77b62eee30eddf3).```

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i think that is a good sign!

tired geyser Jun 24, 2025, 6:49 PM

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okay, it should work now

tired geyser Jun 24, 2025, 6:49 PM

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leaden salmon i think that is a good sign!

yes!

leaden salmon Jun 24, 2025, 6:52 PM

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Wait it didn't play audio but i didn't get an error for that

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but a different error occured that made the bot keep joining and leaving the vc randomly

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ill send the error

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Wait... i have to go to work now 😭 here is my full code if that helps https://paste.pythondiscord.com/PPBQ
i will be able to message, but i won't be able to try anything until like 9:30 p.m. CDT sorry

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Here was the error: https://paste.pythondiscord.com/FYIA

tired geyser Jun 24, 2025, 6:57 PM

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i'm not sure about this problem, but it does seem like the opus problem is solved now, you may wanna head to #discord-bots or the discord.gg/dpy server for help with your new problem

tawdry shardBOT Jun 24, 2025, 7:57 PM

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