Popping Sound

My Sound Blaster X7 USB DAC also works again in beta 2, although the popping has appeared now. Unplugging and re-plugging the USB cable didn't help in my case.

Hey uncletr, You should be able to access the object library two ways: 1. Click the view tab located on the top in the toolbar, then click libraries. 2. Command-shift-L. This should pop up the object library. You can also do command-shift-M to pop up the audio/music library. Let me know if you need additional help!

Same issue here, 11.3 final release. Strong popping and clicking from Macbook Pro 16 speakers. Restarting core audio as above fixed it. Not sure if fix is permanent.

Got the same issue.. frankly the whole auto switching between devices is 50% disaster for me. If I've got something like a Slack call going and pop in my AirPods Pro the right comes on but the Mircophone stays set (in Slack) to my MBP microphone. Change that to AirPods and it livens up both AirPods. No call going on.. or music. Pop in my AirPods and play music, only get audio in the right. Open sound Preferences and the balance slider is over to the right, move it to centre and it's fine. Happens every single time. Had a look a the audio MIDI setup, can see the balance issue replicated in there, but doesn't seem to change anything. Pre-Big Sur I had to switch manually but it worked.

Same issue, and happening for months. Audio is crackling/popping from internal 16 M1 speaker. On external monitor, unusable. And on airpods, usable but still has issues. OS 12.2.

This sound popping issues started happening with Xcode 12 and it has been months with no fix. Problem is that simulators (SwiftUi views are using them also) and the fact that phones do not have the same sound hardware a.k.k simulators actually change the output of the sound you hear in on your Mac (because they simulate it to show what the phone would do). Unfortunately this causes many many issues on the Mac sound hardware but is 100% fixable by the Xcode team, we cant do anything ourselves its a problem if the simulators highjacking the systems sounds and outputting it via a hardware that is not supposed to output this way. This is mind boggling that it is still not fixed.

I have BT problems on iPhone 6 Plus since 14. I’m on 14.2 and when BT device shuts down sometimes the connection stays on and the sound is diverted to switched off device. Now happened to both my BT headphones and BT speakers. Never had this happening with the same devices before. Turning down volume all the way doesn’t seem to silence audio completely any more after the update, quite annoying. I have pop ups showing and lowering sound because apparently it is not healthy to listen with 3/4 volume, pop up says I’m using headphones, but i’m listening in BT speakers. I have never expected such poor update from Apple, always updated with confidence until now.

Please report this issue in feedback, this is one of the few that Apple has reached back out to me on. If they do, they will provide a method to log with ktrace and a few other things so they can look into it. Based on this it is definitely a known issue. If you want a guaranteed way to trigger the crackling and popping, run a VM on the system. Especially a mac VM using the apple virtualization since that is 100% apple, but any should suffice. Or obviously a high cpu/gpu load for a while. Then exit the VM, just running it will start the problem and make it highly likely any cpu use will cause lots of popping, until you reboot. My guess is it is a driver that causes a buffer to go nuts, as killing everything related to sound at a user level does not work, so it has to be something kernel level or something similar. Pay attention to the popping, many times it will be audio going out of sync and back into sync in time. Very obvious with youtube videos where it will gl

I found matching the audio format and bit rate on all of my audio devices to help the random pops/clips occurring during audio playback. This can be done in the Audio Midi Setup menu. By default, OSX had some audio devises set to 44.1k and others on 48k, some at 16 bit, others at 24 bit. When I had matched the format and bit rate on all connected audio devices to 48k and 24 bit, the pops and clips were reduced dramatically. I would also note my device did not operate well at 44.1k. I would also recommend disabling bluetooth devices, as this has been known to cause issues as well. Hope this helps my fellow audio lovers experiencing these clip/pop playback issues.