Question / Help No audio on boot

[ControlCoreAngel]

For the past while, I've had an issue where whenever I boot OBS, I won't have audio at all, or I'll have to wait for my audio to work. All my mic settings are as they should be, and I never had this issue before the Studio update.
Sometimes, especially starting around the time I'm posting this, OBS will capture my Mic audio but not my IShowU audio (which is set to a Multi-Output Device).
I tried asking on the Discord but have been getting literally no help.

https://obsproject.com/logs/3tlwjErMdBE3rqpL

No audio:

Only Mic audio:

Sound preferences:

Audio settings:

 

[Narcogen]

You are selecting the wrong device. The aggregate device is to send audio to as your default; it should to go iShowU and to whatever device you are listening to. You select the iShowU virtual device as the device for capture in OBS.

 

[ControlCoreAngel]

This isn't the case, considering my audio has worked before. IShowU is set as "ComputerAudio", not anything else. You can see it on my Mic/Aux 2.

 

[ControlCoreAngel]

Bump, still dealing with this issue, except now I don't have sound at all, even after rebooting, restarting OBS, and waiting.

 

[ControlCoreAngel]

Bumping again.

 

[Narcogen]

Does OBS have permission to access audio devices in the Security and Privacy settings?

 

[ControlCoreAngel]

Yes. It has it on by default, and double checking it still does.

 

[ControlCoreAngel]

I uninstalled and reinstalled OBS. No dice.

 

[Narcogen]

Did you delete or remove the contents of ~/Library/Application Support/obs-studio ?

Although to be honest I do not think that will matter, but just deleting the app and reinstalling it will leave all profiles and scene collections alone, to truly reset the app this folder needs to be deleted. (You will lose all profiles and scenes, however).

 

[ControlCoreAngel]

I did that, deleting the folder entirely, and my scenes remained after reinstalling. My audio issue remains.

 

[Narcogen]

You deleted that folder... and your scenes remained?

That is odd because the scenes are in that folder.

 

[ControlCoreAngel]

Yes, and I navigated to and deleted the right folder and everything.

 

[Narcogen]

That really should not be possible. OBS keeps scenes and profiles in that folder. If they were deleted, you would have no active profile and no active scene, and OBS would recreate blank ones.

Are you sure you deleted

~/Library/Application Support/obs-studio

and not

/Library/Application Support/obs-studio

?

 

[MLA1973]

I had the same issue when I upgraded to Mojave. OBS has created a patch yet for the update. So, I open OBS via Terminal using: /Applications/OBS.app/Contents/MacOS/OBS
and I was able to get my audio back.

 

[Narcogen]

Depending on how OBS is opened it will save its files in different locations.

For instance, if I open OBS with sudo, it opens as if after a fresh reinstall because I'm opening it as if I am root instead of my usual user account.

The only audio issue I'm aware of with Mojave specifically is the need to give OBS permissions in the Security control panel, permission to access microphones and cameras. Opening with sudo probably gets around that.

 

[ControlCoreAngel]

I had the same issue when I upgraded to Mojave. OBS has created a patch yet for the update. So, I open OBS via Terminal using: /Applications/OBS.app/Contents/MacOS/OBS
and I was able to get my audio back.

This worked for me, thanks so much!