Background processes clogging up the Task Manager after crash

[mintshader]

As you might imagine, Speekaboo crashes a lot for me 😅 I've noticed that if the program doesn't close out properly for any reason, it leaves behind these background processes.

This wouldn't be an issue, except when I reload Speekaboo, I get the error "Error: Address in use. Is there another instance running?" and events from Speaker.bot don't run in the new Speekaboo instance. I have to manually end the windowed Python processes before running a new Speekaboo instance (where it then runs normally).

The way I've been getting around this is by running Speekaboo from a .bat file that has this:

@echo off
cd /d "C:\Users\mint\Speekaboo-main"

taskkill /F /IM python.exe >nul 2>&1
taskkill /F /IM pythonw.exe >nul 2>&1

call poetry run pythonw -m speekaboo

It's a non-issue for me, but I wanted to put it here just in case you can add an easy fix for this in the next update! 😊 Thanks again for making Speekaboo, I really enjoy it and I hope it can get to a point where I can suggest it to non-techy streamer friends to use as a good TTS alternative 💖

Adding this for posterity's sake, I'm running this on Windows 11, with Python 3.12.10 and Poetry 2.2.1.

[easyaspi314]

Yeah I need to work on ensuring threads get cleaned up 100% of the time 😓

[easyaspi314]

I fixed most of the cases where the program would stay running in the background, but I want to leave this open because there are still a few scenarios where the app could theoretically lock up.