Desktop default audio device

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The Tulip Creative Computer - a portable Python synthesizer for music and graphics

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Desktop default audio device #103

Open bwhitman opened 1 year ago

bwhitman commented 1 year ago

You can set audio device by running the app like ./dev/Tulip\ CC.app/Contents/MacOS/tulip -d 2 but on double clicking it'll use device -1. For me, at least this is never the device i have set as my default. I don't know why.

bwhitman commented 5 months ago

This is now even weirder for me, after a macOS update -- I can no longer even set the device to anything but the system default -- not even after changing the system default (in sound settings) ! and -d X no longer has any effect. I've tried this on two macOS machines and both exhibit the same behavior. I may have some misconfiguration but I'll look to see if maybe miniaudio has an update.

bwhitman commented 5 months ago

(this is not a tulip specific issue - it will appear in AMY and Alles as well, but I'll track it here)

jminor commented 3 months ago

I downloaded Tulip Desktop (August 2024 release) and found that it produces no sound on my MacBook Pro (macOS 14.5).

After finding this issue, I tried running ~/Downloads/Tulip\ Desktop.app/Contents/MacOS/tulip -d 1 from the Terminal and now it works!

Is there a way to specify the audio device from boot.py?

bwhitman commented 3 months ago

Unfortunately not yet. The audio device is setup in C before even micropython boots. It would be possible to restart the audio device on Tulip Desktop in Python using another device ID, so I'll take a look at that.

bwhitman commented 3 months ago

@jminor - to help us out, do you have any other audio devices connected to your computer (this could include things like HDMI monitors, or cameras) , and is your macbook's speakers set as the default audio device? (The blue icon when you click on the volume icon in the menu bar.)

Can you show me the output of tulip -l? I think this may be a miniaudio bug but i'd love to collect data about it not working.

jminor commented 3 months ago

I don't have any physical audio devices attached, but there are a couple of virtual ones.

tulip -l shows:

0 - BlackHole 16ch
1 - MacBook Pro Speakers
2 - ZoomAudioDevice
3 - Multi-Output Speakers + Blackhole 16

My default in System Settings is "MacBook Pro Speakers"

jminor commented 3 months ago

More info: System Settings shows a slightly different list of devices:

Let me know if there's anything else I can try/gather to help out. Maybe I can run a different miniaudio program?