cava: [help needed] failure in opening stream (ffffd8f2)

I’m on macOS I have installed cava using brew. The config dir wasn’t there so I manually put it there. Background Music is running and I changed everything I could to method = portaudio source = "Background Music" When running cava it displays that error and brakes my session.

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Your relevant config option is comented out. Try to remove the semicolon before

source = “Background Music”

If it still fails, you could try spundflower instead of background music. I recall there was some issues with background music in recent macos versions.

karlstav on Jul 9, 2022

I have the same error on macOS, i’ve tried brew reinstall portaudio

satyajit-ink on May 13, 2022

hi @life-the-user,

sorry for the late reply, finally got around to actually test portaudio on mac and this does indeed happen. Luckily it is a known bug in portaudio. Just reinstall it and it should work fine.

brew reinstall portaudio

a simple brew upgrade might also solve it. I should have tried that first, too late now.

karlstav on Jan 30, 2022