# Audio in problem with Mac OS Catalina

**URL:** <https://discourse.processing.org/t/audio-in-problem-with-mac-os-catalina/28897>\
**Category:** Processing\
**Created:** [March 27, 2021, 9:12am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/audio-in-problem-with-mac-os-catalina/28897 "2021-03-27T09:12:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![yannisky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3e96dc/32.png) [@yannisky](https://discourse.processing.org/u/yannisky)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2021, 7:47pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/audio-in-problem-with-mac-os-catalina/28897/7 "2021-03-28T19:47:37Z")

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I’ve found a workaround that was suggested by another person on the forum:

> [@Give Mic access to Processing Sketch (Mac Catalina)](https://discourse.processing.org/t/give-mic-access-to-processing-sketch-mac-catalina/17953):
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> I/m looking for a way to give my sketch access to my mic in Mac Catalina. I know you can manage your mic access in the System Preferences, but I can’t manually add apps. I already found this link: [macOS Mojave and Catalina TCC trigger](https://github.com/processing/processing-sound/issues/5) where they talk about Processing not asking for permission (mic and cam) when needed, but after reading everything 6 times I have NO idea what they are talking about. It seems like they offer a work-around, but I’m really not sure how or where to implement. So, i…

It involves: opening the Processing 3 app through Terminal by typing:  
/Applications/Processing.app/Contents/MacOS/Processing;  
Then opening the file needing mic access - this triggers the pop-up asking to access camera and mic and then it works…  
Hopefully there will be a simpler solution in the future…but this works for now. See the github post where this was mentioned:

> <https://github.com/processing/processing-sound/issues/51>
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> \## Description
> When launching Processing.app and a user wants to use audio inpu…t for example, the app doesn’t aks for permission to use the microphone
> 
> \## Expected Behavior
> Trigger a window asking the user for the processing.app to access the microphone
> !\[3d0e288c-9d77-4523-b1ec-bf42bca85cf1\](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2464284/73177019-2a1b4800-410e-11ea-8d33-26a422025b8f.png)
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> \## Current Behavior
> No tcc triggers, so there are no audio or video inputs available
> 
> 
> \## Steps to Reproduce
> 
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> 1. Open Processing.app
> 2. Import sound library
> 3. Open examples --\>Libraries--\>Sound--\>IO--\>AudioInput
> \<img width="1441" alt="Processing\_app-sound" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2464284/73177311-01e01900-410f-11ea-94bf-2e71d8300417.png"\>
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> \## Your Environment
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> \* Processing version: 3.5.4 and 4.0 beta
> \* Operating System and OS version: 10.14.6
> 
> 
> \## Possible Causes / Solutions
> 
> Use the Apple provided API call to add some tags in the Info.plist file.
> \[https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avfoundation/cameras\_and\_media\_capture/requesting\_authorization\_for\_media\_capture\_on\_macos\](url)

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