Completely messes up the sound on mac OS Catalina

[cyber-gh]

Mac OS Catalina 10.15.3 (19D76) Downloaded from the readme.MD BackgroundMusic-0.3.2.pkg from My Bluetooth headphones were on ATH-SR30BT Once I activated the app the sound made no sense, was broken. Had multiple apps on, those with sound were: Google chrome Microsoft Teams

[PeterHeja]

macos: 10.15.1 (19B88) backgroundmusic: BackgroundMusic-0.3.2.pkg

Headphones w/ bluetooth: airpods pro and Sony WH-1000XM3 - talking audio became high pitched while installing, then became some demonic noise

Headphones w/o bluetooth: random akg, Sony WH-1000XM3 (w/ audio jack) - works fine

What I had when I encountered this / how I tested this: Webex, Chrome (YouTube)

[kode54]

Adjust the sample rates of the BackgroundMusic sound device to match your actual output device, using Audio MIDI Setup.

[verboEse]

Mac OS Catalina 10.15.3 (19D76) Tried with 0.3.2 as well with the 0.4.0 snapshot. Both version scramble the output when using BOSE QC35 quiet, regardless of the application I use. Works well with MacBook Pro Speakers as well as with Display Audio (Thunderbold display). I can't modify the sample rates of the headphone (goes back to the standard each time I try), so I assume the bluetooth driver is broken.

[danielbertolozi]

Just to comment on the topic: Using my Audio Technica ATH-M50xBT over Bluetooth really messes the audio – cos it's 16bit 16khz over BT. Plugging it via cable fixes the issue, as it then supports up to 48khz in 32-bit.

However, I can't change Background Music to use 16bit Single. If I could, then I believe it would work via BT.

[noizo]

Open Applications > Utilities > Audio MIDI Setup Find Background Music, change to 48000, or if it's already 48k, change to 16k and back to 48k. That fixed it for me with WH-1000XM3

It has to be same values as Your output on sony headset.

[verboEse]

Indeed this at least partially solves my issue. Maybe it got solved by the last OS upgrade, but at least it's working now ¯_(ツ)_/¯