Running a late 2013 MacBook Pro with Catalina 10.15.7 and audacity-macos-3.0.4-Intel. Get error -9997 both in trying to record with the built-in microphone (only input source I’ve tried) or playback of AIFF, WAV and mp3 files I’ve opened in Audacity. Checked in System Preference Security & Privacy and Audacity has permission to use the built-in microphone. I also checked the settings in Audio MIDI Setup and tried all the bit-rate selections for 44.1 kHz sample rate for both the mic and built-in speakers with no success. In Audacity preferences I have the Devices set to built-in microphone and built-in speakers and in Quality Sampling I have 24 bit 44.1 kHz. When I try to record I get the message “Error opening recording device. Error code: -9997 Invalid sample rate” and below that in the diagnostic box headed with Problem details:
{
“timestamp”: 1630377022,
“event_id”: “df0a79fe7aed435b84e7c56c245250cb”,
“platform”: “native”,
“release”: “audacity@3.0.4”,
“contexts”: {
“os”: {
“type”: “os”,
“name”: “Macintosh”,
“version”: “10.15.7”
}
},
“exception”: {
“values”: [
{
“type”: “Error”,
“value”: “Error opening recording device.\nError code: -9997 Invalid sample rate.”,
“mechanism”: {
“type”: “runtime_error”,
“handled”: false
}
}
]
}
}
When I open any AIFF, WAV or mp3 file and try to play it I get the message: Error opening sound device. Try changing the audio host, playback device and the project sample rate. The problem details box has the following:
{
“timestamp”: 1630377602,
“event_id”: “8ef7b4fd19bc4310abcc3f65caf1b5cd”,
“platform”: “native”,
“release”: “audacity@3.0.4”,
“contexts”: {
“os”: {
“type”: “os”,
“name”: “Macintosh”,
“version”: “10.15.7”
}
},
“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
}
}
]
}
}
Any help getting recording and playback working will be greatly appreciated.