SpikeyMikey

Thanks for the reply. I haven't used Console.app before, but I just opened it and tried searching for "BGMXPCHelper" in the upper-right search field, with my hard drive selected in...

FYI - just did a minor OS update – Ventura 13.6.8, but still having the same issue.

Ventura 13.6.9 - same issue

Thanks for the reply. I'm not familiar with either of those things. Can you please explain? I'm not very code-savvy.

Thank you for the tips. I looked into Homebrew, but am not confident I can handle installing/utilizing it properly...sounds a bit beyond my technical knowledge. I also installed and tried...

Surprisingly, after a Mac OS Ventura update (13.7.2) + a manual full-wipe uninstall of Background Music, then reinstall, this issue went away! Yay!