My macOS is Sonoma 14.8.7. This most recent version of Anki and the version previous would show the error message “Sound and video on cards will not function until mpv or mplayer is installed” every time I try to play audio on an Anki card. About a month ago, I looked for similar issues and another user was told to download something through Homebrew, however, I tried this and Homebrew does not work on my computer. The only thing that worked was installing a previous version of Anki (it might have been 24 or 25). That worked, sound played normally. However, when I try to open that previous version, it refuses to open and points me to updating to this most recent version of Anki (the one where audio does not work).
Could you please provide some background information?
What model of Mac computer do you have?
What version of Anki are you currently using?
I note that the latest version of macOS Sonoma is 14.8.9. I don’t know if it will help with this particular issue, but you might want to consider updating your computer to it. At the very least, doing so would get you the latest security fixes.
I tried both, audio file was already named libs, changing it either way didn’t do anything. Homebrew doesn’t seem to be supported on my computer, so that was a dead end.
It was worth a shot. Definitely respond to BenJamesBen’s questions too. But the end result might be that you need to downgrade to an earlier version, as mentioned in the other threads.
Updated the computer (it’s a 2019 MacBook Air), the most recent version still doesn’t allow sound to work but I downgraded to Anki 23.12.1 and that’s working fine. I guess the solution was just to downgrade to a version even farther back.