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macOS System-wide Audio Equalizer & Volume Mixer 🎧
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Driver quits when discord is present (Edit: any app that uses microphone) #892

Closed StillCreative closed 5 months ago

StillCreative commented 5 months ago

Describe the bug When I updated to the newest version after 1.7 was failing me, I've noticed that it refuses to keep the driver open when discord is open. If I quit discord, the EQ works fine. I open discord, and the audio breaks, and when I restart the audio engine, it breaks and won't allow itself to open again.

Steps to Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Open EQmac v1.8.2
  2. Start any audio
  3. Open discord
  4. See error, audio breaks, and EQ won't work until discord closes

Expected behaviour Until today, EQmac would operate just fine when discord was around, not sure why it hates it now. Well, I know it has to do something with the difference between the 1.7 and 1.8 versions, but besides that I have nothing.

Setup information:

Screenshots or Console.app logs image

(What shows up when I try to refresh the engine)

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Edit: Here's a crash log I got after re-installing discord and then refreshing the engine again. Been about an hour-ish. eqMac-2024-01-11-194106 co.txt

Additional information I'm on a 2020 Macbook Air Also, I tried both Discord and Discord Canary, neither worked to fix anything. I might try and go back to the version I had before, it had issues but it could run, at least. Hopefully the problem doesn't persist there.

about 1 hour later: I've restarted my computer a few times now, and EQmac works flawlessly until discord is opened, it then breaks, and won't open correctly again until another restart is done.

next day: I figured something out! It look like it isn't discord, but any app that wants to use the microphone? I turned off access to my mic for discord (and most every app now) and it seems to not break. I haven't been able to get any relevant logs though... only things about coreaudiod being quit.

StillCreative commented 5 months ago

Just so happened to check in, and saw v1.8.3! Fixed the problem completely, much appreciated!