[Cuis-dev] problems with the sound plugin on mac

[Luciano Notarfrancesco]

It seems it always prints that error message, regardless of working
properly or not. For now, I got it working again after starting with a new
image…

On Wed, Dec 3, 2025 at 18:55 Luciano Notarfrancesco <luchiano at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Is anyone using the sound plugin on Mac?
>
> Sometimes it breaks. Today, after installing Blackhole (to route audio to
> chrome in order to make it audible when sharing screen with jitsi) it
> started to break a lot more… seems kind of random, sometimes rebooting and
> starting with a new image or changing the sampling rate makes it work for a
> while. When it breaks, the sound plugin prints “failed to get output device
> notification” and “failed to get input device notification”,
> https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/blob/e8ad08deed61a93992c56e3b4f7ba3cdbe1b49df/platforms/iOS/plugins/SoundPlugin/sqSqueakSoundCoreAudio.m#L370
>
> I don’t think it’s just Blackhole, it happened before too, it just seems
> to ve happening more often now.
>
> I think it eould be nice to rewrite the sound and MIDI plugins with
> rtaudio, it should be crossplatform and much simpler (it’s just one c++
> source file). In the meantime, any idea? Any alternative?
>
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