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Title: New issue with Audacity on Mac OS Big Sur - can't play or record on v 2.4.2
Post by: morst on January 14, 2022, 03:01:08 PM: Anyone else had an issue?This just started within the past couple days, and I was able to boot up a clean OS and found that Audacity worked fine on it.
I am not able to even get it to play back on the internal speaker of my mac mini (m1 processor)

it says "error opening the sound device.
Try changing the audio host, playback device, and the project sample rate."
Title: Re: New issue with Audacity on Mac OS Big Sur - can't play or record on v 2.4.2
Post by: if_then_else on January 15, 2022, 01:41:48 PM: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/error_opening_sound_device.html
Title: Re: New issue with Audacity on Mac OS Big Sur - can't play or record on v 2.4.2
Post by: morst on January 15, 2022, 02:54:13 PM: Quote from: if_then_else on January 15, 2022, 01:41:48 PM
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/error_opening_sound_device.html (https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/error_opening_sound_device.html)
yeah I guess I'll go over that again with a fine tooth comb.
The Privacy setting is a symptom of the problem. Audacity doesn't even show up as an option in the Microphone section.
Title: Re: New issue with Audacity on Mac OS Big Sur - can't play or record on v 2.4.2
Post by: morst on January 15, 2022, 03:21:00 PM: Yep found the problem. None of my sound interfaces lists any supported sample rates.
Now if I can figure out how to fix that...
Title: Re: New issue with Audacity on Mac OS Big Sur - can't play or record on v 2.4.2
Post by: relefunt on January 22, 2022, 04:17:27 PM: Would going into Apple MIDI setup utility help with that?
Title: Re: New issue with Audacity on Mac OS Big Sur - can't play or record on v 2.4.2
Post by: morst on January 23, 2022, 12:19:03 AM: Quote from: relefunt on January 22, 2022, 04:17:27 PM
Would going into Apple MIDI setup utility help with that?
Apple's "Audio MIDI Setup" app is part of my normal workflow, and thus far, no combination of settings seems to make my main system work.

Using my clean install of Big Sur on an external thunderbolt SSD works MOST of the time, but I've had the exact same problem, only it's intermittent!

Next thing to check is all cables and hubs. Can't imagine that unplugging a powered-off MixPre6 will make Audacity work with the internal speaker, but I'll try everything at this point.
Title: FIXED - issue with Audacity on Mac OS Big Sur - can't play or record on v 2.4.2
Post by: morst on January 30, 2022, 04:57:43 PM: I updated my macOS to Big Sur 11.6.3 and now it works fine!!!
Maybe it just needed the disc cleanup after a crash!?
That was weird but I'm glad it works now!
Title: Re: New issue with Audacity on Mac OS Big Sur - can't play or record on v 2.4.2
Post by: morst on April 03, 2022, 06:29:21 PM: it's doing the same damn thing again now.won't even play through the internal speaker when I boot up clean and reinstall audacity (delete the folder located at ~Library>Application Support > audacity)

Grr.
Title: Re: New issue with Audacity on Mac OS Big Sur - can't play or record on v 2.4.2
Post by: FrankPere on April 25, 2022, 02:41:23 PM: OMG! I had that problem too, try to rebot
Title: Re: New issue with Audacity on Mac OS Big Sur - can't play or record on v 2.4.2
Post by: morst on April 26, 2022, 09:21:31 PM: I rebooted at least 20 times over the course of several weeks, but now I have given up on Big Sur and moved on to Monterey.
Audacity 2.4.2 works fine in Monterey.
Title: Re: New issue with Audacity on Mac OS Big Sur - can't play or record on v 2.4.2
Post by: scb on May 12, 2022, 09:03:53 AM: Quote from: morst on April 26, 2022, 09:21:31 PM
I rebooted at least 20 times over the course of several weeks, but now I have given up on Big Sur and moved on to Monterey.
Audacity 2.4.2 works fine in Monterey.

not working for me in 12.3.1