#Error opening sound device

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wanton storm Nov 8, 2022, 4:24 PM

I get this error whenever I want to play and audio file.

I tried the solution on https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/error_opening_sound_device.html#macsettings to "Turn on the Allow apps to access your microphone toggle switch" but Audacity does not show as one option in the menu.

Error opening sound device.html

I also tried to force Audacity to show in such menu by using terminal and running:
open /Applications/Audacity.app/Contents/MacOS/Audacity

but the app will not launch since it is from an unknown developer

So i runned the same with "sudo" and it still would not prompt me to add the microphone permisions or anything like so

"timestamp": 1667924024,
"event_id": "1aa3c6c1aa684c9b8bbd85af0e4c3265",
"platform": "native",
"release": "[email protected]",
"os": {
"type": "os",
"name": "Macintosh",
"version": "10.16.0"
"type": "Error",
"value": "Error opening sound device.\nTry changing the audio host, playback device and the project sample rate.",
"mechanism": {
"type": "runtime_error",
"handled": false

wanton storm Nov 8, 2022, 6:08 PM

UPDATE: After rebooting the system, Audacity now properly requested permision to use the microphone and I can make voice recordings in int.
Audacity still CAN NOT reproduce audio, eventhough no Error message is being generated