Anki needs to "just work"

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Once again, an Anki update is requiring me to become a system administrator. I understand that this is a community supported application, and yet, once again, the latest Anki update (25.09.2) has broken something (in this case, audio) that, in this era, should just f’n work (on MacOS 15.6.1). I’m so frustrated that the commercial tools have crappy algorithms that don’t correctly reinforce memory, and that the one tool I’ve found that does correctly reinforce memory seems to completely ignore regression testing and usability testing.

At a loss here, trying to learn stuff and tired of fighting crappy tech.

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  • What are the behaviors you are seeing?
  • What type of audio file are you trying to play? Does it play correctly from the Finder but not from within Anki?
  • You are saying that the audio file played correctly before you updated Anki to 25.09.2? If so, what Anki version were you using before?
  • Did you also update the OS at around the same time? Or, is the change definitely related to the Anki update?

(Audio in Anki “just works” for me just fine on Mac, even after I updated to 25.09.2. I’m using macOS 26.0.1.)

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I’m sorry you’re struggling, but if you mean this to be an actual request for help (and not just pointless venting), you’re going to have to give us a lot more detail about what you’re trying and what is not working about it.

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To keep Anki running as stable as possible I recommend sticking to the version you have and avoiding upgrades. e.g. Anki 2.1.35 is a version from 5 years ago but popular language learning add-ons are still available for free until this version, so this Anki version is still popular among some language learners.
“Tools → Upgrade/Downgrade” or you can get older versions of Anki from GitHub.

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