How can I get rid of this "Background Music" dot? I don't have any audio playing. And it's there even when Music and Safari are closed.

• BackgroundMusic

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  Background Music, a macOS audio utility: automatically pause your music, set individual apps' volumes and record system audio.

That’s there because you’re using the app ‘background music’. I was thinking about using it but after testing I wasn’t happy with the way it accesses the “microphone”. It’s not actually listening to you though. The “microphone” it’s accessing is actually a virtual microphone that the app creates with system audio going through it so it knows what’s being played so it can pause music when appropriate. To get rid of that microphone in use alert you’ll need to get rid of background music. You can follow their uninstall instructions on the page I linked

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