Audacity keeps giving me this error; Error opening sound device

Audacity Help Forum macOS
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I have tried re-installing audacity and changing the sample rate but nothign works, does anyone have a fix for this

{
“timestamp”: 1671062336,
“event_id”: “42f3b74c57c84ff988b6037f83150c81”,
“platform”: “native”,
“release”: “audacity@3.2.2”,
“contexts”: {
“os”: {
“type”: “os”,
“name”: “Macintosh”,
“version”: “10.16.0”
}
},
“exception”: {
“values”: [
{
“type”: “Error”,
“value”: “Error opening sound device.\nTry changing the audio host, playback device and the project sample rate.”,
“mechanism”: {
“type”: “runtime_error”,
“handled”: false
}
}
]
}

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What output device are you trying to use?
– Bill

3

External headphones, but it gave me that error when i used normal speakers too

i reinstalled audacity again and its working fine, ill tell you if it starts giving me the error message again

4

Audacity can lose devices if they are plugged or unplugged while Audacity is running. Typically Transport > Rescan Audio Devices will find them again.