MagicMirror blocks audio output

[ChrisM]

Hi everyone, I am relatively new to the MagicMirror and have a problem, maybe someone can help me.
I have the MagicMirror running. It runs out of the box as it should. However, I can no longer play music. I play music from my iPhone via Shairport Sync (https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync). Without MM, the whole thing runs perfectly, but when I now install the MM on the RaspberryPi, I can no longer hear the music. Does anyone know what is going wrong in the background?

I have a RaspberryPi 4 8GB and the sound is transmitted via HDMI.

[sdetweil]

@chrism hm… shouldn’t be a problem… MM is a browser, and it typically shares the audio ports…

I can play wav and mp3, and postify separately while MM is running…

[ChrisM]

@sdetweil well thats weird… I don’t even get output if I run a speaker test.

[sdetweil]

@chrism what MM modules do you have installed? I am using the defaults in this test…

i have a wav file recorded from my mic, and I use it to test playback (My monitors have a quirk and turn off the speakers quite often)…

[bugsounet]

Hi, just for information

since now ~ one year Raspbian use pulseaudio, so it will select Automaticaly mic source and output source

so stop using alsa configuration and use pulseaudio :)

alsa = only one audio process at same time
pulse audio = muti audio process at same time

Note: now in my modules no mic config / audio output is require, pulse audio do job