MacOS 14.5 no sound

[matt-horwood-mayden]

Hello,

I have an issue with the sound not working after some time, I think it might be a macos sleep thing. A restart seems to make the sound work for a bit

[HenriWahl]

@matt-horwood-mayden sorry for the late reply. Can you try the meanwhile released newer version?

[matt-horwood-mayden]

have updated to 3.16.2, will see how long the sound works for. I also have an OS update to 15.1 pending, so may have to see if that affects anything

[matt-horwood-mayden]

I have just got back from the school run and nagstamon is not making any sound, but the floating thing is flashing.

I have had my mac go to sleep over night, I do wander if that kills its sound notification thread

[HenriWahl]

I remember there was a problem with Nagstamon being packaged by pyinstaller in Nagstamon. The package basically is a ZIP file, which gets extracted at every start into a temporary folder. For some reason the contained sound files got deleted after a while - sounds like something like this came back with the lates pyinstaller.

[HenriWahl]

To prove this theory you could define some other sound somewhere on your harddisk and see if it vanishes too.

[matt-horwood-mayden]

Hello 👋🏼

I have good news and bad, I have been using custom sounds all this time. So have swapped back to the default, will see if thats the issue

[HenriWahl]

@matt-horwood-mayden this is really strange because it was originally a problem of the included sounds.

[matt-horwood-mayden]

Does that mean you have fixed builtin sounds and a similar fix might work for custom sounds?

I have been running with the builtin sounds and they too seem to stop after some time, but I have noticed that they do return intermittently. Not sure if that helps or not.

[HenriWahl]

@matt-horwood-mayden no - only the builtin sound need the fix, because the packaging tool pyinstaller stuffs all things related to Nagstamon into a zipped file which gets unzipped at start into a temporary folder by design. I noted that macOS from time to time cleans up this folder and thus deletes all sound files. Nagstamon cares about these sound files and rewrites them if they had been cleaned away. This "mechanism" is not needed for custom sound files.

[matt-horwood-mayden]

ok, that is very odd then. what can I do to help debug?