Cannot play audio on macOS Sonoma

[litearc]

I am trying to play audio on macOS Sonoma on an M2 Air laptop. mpd starts up without error, but when I try to play audio with client ncmpcpp, it kills mpd. My configs for mpd and ncmpcpp are shown below. I have a similar setup on Ubuntu which works fine, so it seems to be a macOS issue.

mpd config:

music_directory          "~/s/vgm"
playlist_directory       "~/.mpd/playlists"
db_file                  "~/.mpd/mpd.db"
log_file                 "~/.mpd/mpd.log"
pid_file                 "~/.mpd/mpd.pid"
state_file               "~/.mpd/mpdstate"
auto_update              "yes"
auto_update_depth        "2"
follow_outside_symlinks  "yes"
follow_inside_symlinks   "yes"

audio_output {
  type        "osx"
  name        "CoreAudio"
  mixer_type  "software"
}

decoder {
  plugin   "mp4ff"
  enabled  "no"
}

bind_to_address  "127.0.0.1"
port             "6600"

ncmpcpp config:

mpd_host = "localhost"
mpd_port = "6600"
mpd_music_dir = "~/s/vgm"
user_interface = alternative

output of mpd --version:

✿ ~ mpd --version
Music Player Daemon 0.23.15 (0.23.15)
Copyright 2003-2007 Warren Dukes <warren.dukes@gmail.com>
Copyright 2008-2021 Max Kellermann <max.kellermann@gmail.com>
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Database plugins:
 simple proxy upnp

Storage plugins:
 local nfs curl

Neighbor plugins:
 upnp

Decoders plugins:
 [mpg123] mp3
 [vorbis] ogg oga
 [oggflac] ogg oga
 [flac] flac
 [opus] opus ogg oga
 [sndfile] wav aiff aif au snd paf iff svx sf voc w64 pvf xi htk caf sd2
 [dsdiff] dff
 [dsf] dsf
 [hybrid_dsd] m4a
 [faad] aac
 [wavpack] wv
 [fluidsynth] mid
 [ffmpeg] 16sv 3g2 3gp 4xm 8svx aa3 aac ac3 adx afc aif aifc aiff al alaw amr anim apc ape asf atrac au aud avi avm2 avs bap bfi c93 cak cin cmv cpk daud dct divx dts dv dvd dxa eac3 film flac flc fli fll flx flv g726 gsm gxf iss m1v m2v m2t m2ts m4a m4b m4v mad mj2 mjpeg mjpg mka mkv mlp mm mmf mov mp+ mp1 mp2 mp3 mp4 mpc mpeg mpg mpga mpp mpu mve mvi mxf nc nsv nut nuv oga ogm ogv ogx oma ogg omg opus psp pva qcp qt r3d ra ram rl2 rm rmvb roq rpl rvc shn smk snd sol son spx str swf tak tgi tgq tgv thp ts tsp tta xa xvid uv uv2 vb vid vob voc vp6 vmd wav webm wma wmv wsaud wsvga wv wve rtp:// rtsp:// rtsps://
 [pcm]

Filters:
 libsamplerate soxr

Tag plugins:
 id3tag

Output plugins:
 shout null fifo pipe ao openal osx httpd snapcast recorder

Encoder plugins:
 null vorbis opus lame wave flac

Archive plugins:
 [bz2] bz2

Input plugins:
 file archive curl ffmpeg nfs

Playlist plugins:
 extm3u m3u pls xspf asx rss flac cue embcue

Protocols:
 file:// ftp:// ftps:// gopher:// hls+http:// hls+https:// http:// https:// mmsh:// mmst:// nfs:// rtmp:// rtmps:// rtmpt:// rtmpts:// rtp:// rtsp:// rtsps:// sftp:// smb:// srtp://

Other features:
 icu ipv6 tcp un

relevant (latest) portions of log file (when mpd is started with --verbose) after mpd shuts down when trying to play a song through ncmpcpp:

...
Feb 19 12:43 : update: added rudora no hihou/1-15 Rudra no Hihou - Holiday in the Village.mp3
Feb 19 12:43 : update: added rudora no hihou/1-51 Rudra no Hihou - Land of Doom.mp3
Feb 19 12:43 : update: added rudora no hihou/1-32 Rudra no Hihou - Mystics in Babel.mp3
Warning: Xing stream size off by more than 1%, fuzzy seeking may be even more fuzzy than by design!
Feb 19 12:49 : state_file: Loading state file /Users/haisam/.mpd/mpdstate
Feb 19 12:49 : config: inotify: auto_update was disabled. enable during compilation phase
Feb 19 12:49 : bonjour: Registered zeroconf service with name 'Music Player @ Haisams-Air-2.lan'
Feb 19 12:49 : client: [0] opened from 127.0.0.1:52013
Feb 19 12:49 : client: [0] process command "status"
Feb 19 12:49 : client: [0] command returned 0
Feb 19 12:49 : client: [0] process command "plchanges "0""
Feb 19 12:49 : client: [0] command returned 0
Feb 19 12:49 : client: [0] process command "outputs"
Feb 19 12:49 : client: [0] command returned 0
Feb 19 12:49 : client: [0] process command "decoders"
Feb 19 12:49 : client: [0] command returned 0
Feb 19 12:49 : client: [0] process command "outputs"
Feb 19 12:49 : client: [0] command returned 0
Feb 19 12:49 : client: [0] process command "outputs"
Feb 19 12:49 : client: [0] command returned 0
Feb 19 12:49 : client: [0] process command "idle"
Feb 19 12:49 : client: [0] command returned 1
Feb 19 12:49 : client: [0] process command "list Artist"
Feb 19 12:49 : client: [0] command returned 0
Feb 19 12:49 : client: [0] process command "find Artist "(Tomokazu Sugita)/Hiroki Morishi""
Feb 19 12:49 : client: [0] command returned 0
Feb 19 12:49 : client: [0] process command "find Artist "(Tomokazu Sugita)/Hiroki Morishi" Album "Fire Emblem: Awakening" Date """
Feb 19 12:49 : client: [0] command returned 0
Feb 19 12:49 : client: [0] process command "idle"
Feb 19 12:49 : client: [0] command returned 1
Feb 19 12:49 : client: [0] process command "find Artist "Akari Groves""
Feb 19 12:49 : client: [0] command returned 0
Feb 19 12:49 : client: [0] process command "find Artist "Akari Groves" Album "Okami" Date """
Feb 19 12:49 : client: [0] command returned 0
Feb 19 12:49 : client: [0] process command "idle"
Feb 19 12:49 : client: [0] command returned 1
Feb 19 12:49 : client: [0] process command "find Artist "Akari Groves""
Feb 19 12:49 : client: [0] command returned 0
Feb 19 12:49 : client: [0] process command "addid "okami/Disc 1/153 Shinto Priest Mikazuki's Theme.mp3""
Feb 19 12:49 : client: [0] command returned 0
Feb 19 12:49 : client: [0] process command "addid "okami/Disc 2/221 A Spring Reborn.mp3""
Feb 19 12:49 : client: [0] command returned 0
Feb 19 12:49 : client: [0] process command "addid "okami/Disc 2/224 A Great Spirit Lies in Wait.mp3""
Feb 19 12:49 : client: [0] command returned 0
Feb 19 12:49 : client: [0] process command "addid "okami/Disc 2/238 Terror! Old Man and Granny Tongue-Cutter.mp3""
Feb 19 12:49 : client: [0] command returned 0
Feb 19 12:49 : client: [0] process command "playid "1""
Feb 19 12:49 : playlist: play 0:"okami/Disc 1/153 Shinto Priest Mikazuki's Theme.mp3"
Feb 19 12:49 : client: [0] command returned 0
Feb 19 12:49 : decoder_thread: probing plugin mpg123
Warning: Xing stream size off by more than 1%, fuzzy seeking may be even more fuzzy than by design!
Feb 19 12:49 : playlist: queue song 1:"okami/Disc 2/221 A Spring Reborn.mp3"
Feb 19 12:49 : decoder: audio_format=44100:16:2, seekable=true
Feb 19 12:49 : client: [0] process command "idle"
Feb 19 12:49 : client: [0] command returned 1
Feb 19 12:49 : client: [0] process command "status"

steps taken:

• Start mpd with mpd ~/.mpd/mpd.conf --verbose
• Start ncmpcpp with ncmpcpp
• In ncmpcpp, the text at the bottom says "Connected to localhost". When I press 'enter' on a song, I expect the song's audio to play, but instead it shows "ncmpcpp: Connection refused"
• I see mpd is no longer running (by running ps -au <my_username> | grep mpd, and by the fact that I can restart mpd without the "Failed to bind socket: Address already in use" message)

I copied the mpd config from this gist. A comment there suggests that M1 chips are not supported, but I wanted to check - thanks!

[MaxKellermann]

"it kills mpd" is where the problem lies, but more information from you is necessary to be able to help you. Start with https://www.musicpd.org/help/

[litearc]

Updated the initial post with more info.

[MaxKellermann]

Your log is incomplete. It shows no shutdown and no crash of MPD.

[heavyimage]

I had the same issue, @litearc, but upgrading mpd (via brew upgrade mpd on my system, an M1 MacBook Air) seemed to have fixed it! I dunno if the binary needed to be recompiled for Sonoma or just a newer version fixed the issue. I'm also not sure what version I had before; sorry. Anyway, hope this helps someone else!

[litearc]

Thank you @heavyimage, but unfortunately the issue is still there for me after updating mpd.

[heavyimage]

I diffed our config file -- mine has these settings, dunno if this helps:

mixer_type          "software"
audio_output {
    name       "default"
    type       "ao"
    mixer_type "software"
}

[litearc]

It still kills mpd, with this message in the log file:

Jun 18 22:32 : config: inotify: auto_update was disabled. enable during compilation phase

How did you install ao? I did with brew install libao.

[heavyimage]

Yeah, I think so. Sorry! I don't really know what's going on for you. I use a satellite config but I don't think that should matter. Perhaps you should follow the steps that @MaxKellermann indicated? I'm sorry I can't be more useful :-(