LMS and Apple M1 Mac

> I am a long-time LMS user on Windows. Recently, I switched to Mac, and I
> have a new M1 Mac Mini. This is my first time running LMS on a Mac, and

Thanks for getting here (though for the wrong reasons, of course :-)). I
was wondering about this combination...

> on Big Sur, and with the new M1 SoC. I am running LMS version 8.0.1, and
> have been having major problems. I have already granted full disk access

Have you ever been able to run LMS at all?

What would "perl5.18 -v" run in a terminal session give you?

> to perl and bash. I did get it mostly working at one point, but now it
> is unusable. In the preference pane, most of the dropdowns and buttons
> are greyed-out, including being unable to add a media folder (currently
> blank), and I cannot start the server. Also cannot click "Advanced

Yes, those symptoms would show if LMS wasn't running.

> Settings" on the Advanced tab. When it was briefly working, I was also
> getting the error "Problem: can't open file for" on my Boom for some
> songs but not others (all of which work fine in Apple Music and are the
> same file types).

What does your server.log say? (can usually be found in
~/Library/Logs/Squeezebox/server.log).


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Michael