Popping Sound

The helper has no UI because it’s not an app, it’s just a standalone executable. The helper has a UI, allowing to set the app parameters and show the activities, but the only way to access it for the user is through the menu bar icon. We can pop up the main window through a terminal command, and the UI is ok as well on macOS 26. For the other statements, yes, it is correct.

I really don’t appreciate answers along the lines of “Why would you want to do this? You don't need it.” That kind of response is exactly why people are increasingly turning to AI tools for help — because they aim to assist without being dismissive or patronizing. I asked the question because I do notice a difference. I’m currently using a bitmap-style font from this site: https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist. They provide real bitmap fonts, but macOS doesn’t support them natively, so I'm forced to use outline versions instead. Creating a custom font won't help in this case — it won't behave differently regarding anti-aliasing. Here’s the context: I’m developing a music app for macOS that simulates the look of old audio equipment — specifically the monochrome dot matrix LCDs and VFDs. The font is rendered at a specific size such that each ‘fake bitmap pixel’ maps to a 3×3 block of screen pixels. I then apply a mask so that only the 4 top-left pixels of each block are visible, mimicking the

Thank you for the clarification. It seems that the solution based on IOKit may be too complex and unstable. So, I believe, the best approach is to use Core Audio (HAL). Thank you very much!

Sorry about the delay responding. It’s been a busy week. [quote='849355022, Andrewfromvictoria, /thread/791461?answerId=849355022#849355022, /profile/Andrewfromvictoria'] there are very large libraries of audio content available for our program, and the install scripts help them with various options for installing/using this content [/quote] OK. But does that content ultimately stored in your installer package? Or is the script getting it from elsewhere? Share and Enjoy — Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple let myEmail = eskimo + 1 + @ + apple.com

Hi @DTS Engineer, Our new metrics indicate that the one-way issue caused by audio session not activated accounts for more than 50% of cases. Given this significant percentage, could you please revisit and reexamine this issue? Thank you

Is there an Apple-recommended approach to implement such blocking more securely? No, not really. I'm not expert enough in the audio details of the audio system to make any specific recommendation there, but all of the different options within the audio system would really only change the small details of behavior (for example, performance), not provide some fundamental improvement. However, I can say that IOKit: Maybe some solution which is based on IOKit. ...will definitely NOT work, nor would I expect any approach outside of the audio system to really work. Here is what I'd be concerned about: Bluetooth doesn't really live in the kernel in the same way other I/O paths do. I haven't looked closely, but I'm not sure it's possible to block Bluetooth audio devices using IOKit. The range of hardware here is so large that I think it would be VERY difficult to build an IOKit-based solution that I'd be confident could block everything. Further complicating #2, I believe

Hey @Perazim, It sounds like you're building a pretty cool experience, in order to fully understand your situation, it would be great if you could provide me with a sample project that replicates your issue. Our engineering teams need to investigate this issue, as resolution may involve changes to Apple's software. I'd greatly appreciate it if you could open a bug report, include an Xcode project that replicates the issue, and post the FB number here once you do. Bug Reporting: How and Why? has tips on creating your bug report. Thanks, Michael

Hello, We have SpatialAudioComponent set on the sphere to play audio when certain Entities within the sphere are tapped. That part works great. However, when we switch out the image material on the sphere with a VideoMaterial, the spatial sound doesn't appear to be enabled. The volume actually decreases. Is there some meta data we are missing somewhere to spatially play the audio in the video? Thank you! bvsdev

We seem to be having the same issue as well, whenever the window goes into an inactive state before foreground, the audio session gets interrupted. if you have only one window and you close it from the system button, it goes into inactive (causing the session to be interrupted) and then foreground. Closing it programmatically (dismiss window Action) is handled differently as then when observing the scene phases, the window goes directly into foreground. Also if you open window A, and then Window B and then close window B and then A. Interrupts the Audio. In this case, Window B goes into background, but window A goes to Inactive-> Background. However closing window A while B is open and then closing window B does not interrupt it. both windows go into Background state directly. which makes me think that it is the inactive state that is causing this interruption.