Microphone component crashes Mac: still a Catalina and later problem?

OS (e.g. Win10): Mac Ventura 13.2.1
PsychoPy version (e.g. 1.84.x): 2023.2.3
**Standard Standalone? y
What are you trying to achieve?: Record audio using the microphone component

What did you try to make it work?: I added the component to my test trials with an accompanying image component. Both are set to a time limit of 2 seconds.

What specifically went wrong when you tried that?: The computer froze, requiring me to force-restart it. The program saved no audio files and no log.

I’ve read from past posts that there were problems with the microphone component for Macs starting from Catalina and up. Were these problems ever addressed, or do they still persist? If they were addressed, then hopefully someone has an idea of what went wrong.

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A note on the above situation. I uploaded the experiment, which would crash my Mac, to Pavlovia. The microphone component poses no problem there.