Cant print speakers anymore

[fvviz]

this is my code

import soundcard as sc

print(sc.all_speakers())

and this is the error im getting

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/faizrahim/PycharmProjects/pleamswrk/main.py", line 3, in <module>
    print(sc.all_speakers())
  File "/Users/faizrahim/PycharmProjects/pleamswrk/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/soundcard/coreaudio.py", line 164, in __repr__
    return '<Speaker {} ({} channels)>'.format(self.name, self.channels)
  File "/Users/faizrahim/PycharmProjects/pleamswrk/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/soundcard/coreaudio.py", line 134, in name
    return _CoreAudio.CFString_to_str(name)
  File "/Users/faizrahim/PycharmProjects/pleamswrk/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/soundcard/coreaudio.py", line 297, in CFString_to_str
    assert err == 1, "Could not decode string"
AssertionError: Could not decode string

this error just randomly came up now it wasnt there when i tried this last week. what couldve possible happened and how can i fix it? Im on MacOS big sur btw (m1)