[vlc-devel] VLC Player crash under macOS Tahoe with Midi-Files

[Felix Paul Kühne]

Hello Joachim,

Thanks for your report! This is sadly a known problem due to a regression in Apple’s code on macOS 26. We have a ticket on our tracker here: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/29473

Best regards,

Felix

> On 6. Jan 2026, at 18:45, Joachim Schneider via vlc-devel <vlc-devel at videolan.org> wrote:
> 
> Dear VLC-team,
>   updating on macOS Tahoe 26.2, VLC player is immediately crashing every time I try to open a Midi-File .mid. My system is a basic Mac Pro 2019 with Intel CPU.
> This behaviour is the same in every version of VLC player I tested, also the newest version of VLC player 3.0.23. I chose a soundfont .sf2 (AUMidi), which worked well with Midi-Files before macOS Tahoe update. but also other .sf2 lead to the same crash of VLC player.
> So I hope you can figure out a solution for my problem under macOS Tahoe and make Midi-Files play again in VLC player.
> It would be perfect, if you would also implement using FluidSynth in a newer version again.
> Thanks for you support,
> best greetings from Germany,
> Joachim
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