AudioCraft

Surviving Dependency Hell: A Field Guide to Installing Facebook AudioCraft on Ubuntu 20.04

A comprehensive log of installing Facebook’s AudioCraft locally on Ubuntu 20.04 using Miniconda. This guide covers solving the infamous MKL iJIT_NotifyEvent error, handling pkg-config for the av library compilation, and a deep dive into why Conda and Pip sometimes need to coexist redundantly. ...

Taming the Static: Running MusicGen-Melody Fully Offline with Custom Weight Mapping

A deep dive into running Meta’s MusicGen locally without internet access. We explore the architecture mismatch between AudioCraft and Hugging Face weights, solve the ‘static noise’ issue via target-guided state dictionary mapping, and learn how to surgically monkey-patch PyTorch models. ...