10.4: A possible fix for sound issues with various apps

Aug 23, '05 09:12:00AM

Contributed by: dshirley

Tiger only hintHaving installed my new Mac Mini, I straight away started up Beeblefish to listen to some BBC radio. Strangely, a RealPlayer error popped up saying "RealPlayer cannot open audio device. Another application may be using it." Over the next week or so, I noticed that I also had no sound from Flash and Windows Media Player (though there was no error message).

I looked all over the net (starting here, of course) and couldn't find any fixes, until I stumbled on this fix by "Tom X" hidden in the depths of the MacFixIt forums:

If you have this problem, open Audio Midi Setup (in /Applications/Utilities) and make sure that the Audio Output Format is set to 44,100Hz or less (you'll find this in the bottom right quadrant of the window). That's it!

From what I understand, this only applies to 10.4, but I no longer have 10.3 or 10.2 on any machines to confirm this.

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