unable to remove background music device from sound prefrences.

[skullkidrae]

hi there. i am unable to remove the backround music device from my sound prefrences after removing your app. i have tryed both the uninstall.sh file which did nothing at all. and also tryed manualy uninstalling each componant. but nothing has worked. can you help at all?

[kyleneideck]

Have you gone through https://github.com/kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic/blob/master/MANUAL-UNINSTALL.md? If that didn't work, make sure you don't have a directory called Background Music Device.driver in /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/ and try restarting your computer.

If that doesn't help, can you let me know what you have in /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/?

[skullkidrae]

as stated in my orrigonal post. i have tryed manualy removing each componant. but this has done nothing. when i check library/audio i do not have a plug-ins or HAL file.

[ghost]

Encountered this same issue on OSX 10.13.4. I did all of the steps on "MANUAL-UNINSTALL.md", which did not work. I did not have /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/, either.

EDIT: Fixed. After re-installing, running the uninstall.sh script through Terminal did the job.

[ghost]

Encountered this same issue on OSX 10.13.4. I did all of the steps on "MANUAL-UNINSTALL.md", which did not work. I did not have /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/, either.

EDIT: Fixed. After re-installing, running the uninstall.sh script through Terminal did the job.

hey! @shibatan how did you fix it? I tried to do the uninstall.sh script through Terminal but didn't work and i actually dont know that much about macs. may you help??

[kyleneideck]

@ayca99 Did you check that Background Music Device.driver was removed from /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/ and then restart your computer?

[ghost]

@kyleneideck I dont have a HAL folder. Just have components, digidesign and vst

[kyleneideck]

@ayca99 That's very strange then. Maybe macOS has some audio driver caching I've never heard about or something. Could you run these commands in Terminal and take a screenshot of the output?

sudo ls -la /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/
sudo rm -rf /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/Background\ Music\ Device.driver

Then try restarting your computer again.

[ghost]

now im restarting

[ghost]

@kyleneideck Thank you so much! It worked now.

[GongasR]

Hi, i´ve got the same problem. Just bought a MBP and don´t really know how to do this. Can you explain?

[kyleneideck]

@GongasR What have you tried so far and what part are you having trouble with?

[purplekayla13]

I have the HAL file in my plug-ins folder is there something I should do?

[kyleneideck]

@purplekayla13 If you're trying to remove the Background Music device, you should delete the /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/Background Music Device.driver folder and then restart your computer.

[sfederici]

i am unable to remove the backround music device from my sound prefrences after removing your app. i have tryed both the uninstall.sh file which did nothing at all. and also tryed manualy uninstalling each componant. but nothing has worked. can you help at all?

What worked for me in Catalina, as suggested above, was reinstalling Background Music and then, in Terminal:

cd /Applications/Background Music.app/Contents/Resources
sh uninstall.sh

Then, when the script ends, reboot your Mac

[mhmuss99]

I've tried following the uninstall instructions. Mine can't find the file, but the app is still affecting my audio output. Anyone have any other ideas?

[CloudAktsk]

I also encountered this issue after I uninstall BackgroundMusic. None of the solutions above work for me. Eventually, I reset the SMC and NVRAM and it works like a charm! You can try these pages: Reset SMC Reset NVRAM

[drwphi]

This comment helped me to completely remove Background Music for me. The MANUAL-UNINSTALL.MD mentions Delete Background Music Device.driver from /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL but there was no visible HAL folder for me until I checked it with Terminal.

[Structured-Unstructured]

i am unable to remove the backround music device from my sound prefrences after removing your app. i have tryed both the uninstall.sh file which did nothing at all. and also tryed manualy uninstalling each componant. but nothing has worked. can you help at all?

What worked for me in Catalina, as suggested above, was reinstalling Background Music and then, in Terminal:

cd /Applications/Background Music.app/Contents/Resources
sh uninstall.sh

Then, when the script ends, reboot your Mac

Hello, I just reinstalled the app, following what you suggested, meaning: cd /Applications/Background Music.app/Contents/Resources sh uninstall.sh

and then restart. It worked as a charm. Many many thanks!!

[oweezy9]

I was having the same trouble with background Music app uninstall. Followed the instructions above via terminal and they worked! Now it's completely removed. Thanks!