Fixes Mac Audio

[Anmol202005]

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title: "[pr] Fix macOS audio resilience - prevent disconnections"
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Issue: #1626

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description

Fixes macOS audio recording randomly stopping after 48-50+ hours by implementing connection resilience instead of reactive restarts.

Changes:

• Improved error handling to continue on temporary audio errors (sleep/wake, driver hiccups)
• Added automatic device reconnection for disconnected streams within 30 seconds
• Added retry logic with exponential backoff for device startup failures
• Added lightweight monitoring for connection health on macOS (30s intervals)
• Removed heavy timer-based restart approach in favor of prevention

Root cause: macOS CoreAudio sessions get invalidated during sleep/wake cycles and the old code treated all audio errors as terminal, stopping recording completely.

related issue: (addresses reported macOS audio stability issues)

how to test

1. Sleep/Wake Test: Run screenpipe on macOS, close laptop lid for 30+ seconds, open and verify audio recording continues
2. Long Duration Test: Run for 24+ hours on macOS and verify audio doesn't stop (vs. previous 48-50h failure)
3. Device Disconnection Test: Unplug/replug audio devices and verify automatic reconnection within 30 seconds

Expected behavior: Audio recording should maintain stable connections indefinitely on macOS, matching Windows reliability.

/claim #1626

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does it work