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An odd fix for AirTunes intermittent dropouts
Authored by: alienfreak on Nov 08, '10 07:18:30PM

Hi All,

I've been through all of this, the suggestions on many other sites, two multi-hour discussions with the Apple wireless group (nice guys!), and more. Fighting dropouts from what used to be a near perfect situation to what has for months been an unlistenable situation. reconfigured AEB and AEX's per apple tech advice, etc. Still, no Joy.

Finally, after realizing my son's older macbook pro had no issues with dropouts, whereas both my old and my brand new mb pro do, started looking at the machine itself. Even a virgin Test Account given solid test files to play had the problem. After watching activity monitor and eventually the console, I was able to track down a script (the program that was running it shall remain nameless for now but I think its fairly uncommon) which would launch and create a console permissions issue just before each dropout.

Since I removed that particular software (a SYSTEM WIDE (not user based) utility) I have perfect, no dropout streaming.

So I guess what I am saying is watch your console while listening for airtunes drops and track down your culprit, I presume many different software products COULD theoretically cause this result. I never thought I would say this, but it "does not seem to be the network hardware, but the machine doing the streaming and hidden components that are running in the background."

At least this worked for me and I hope it helps someone else out there.

Good Luck!



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An odd fix for AirTunes intermittent dropouts
Authored by: nosara on Nov 28, '11 03:38:07PM

Can you please tell us what script you deleted that helped? I'm losing my mind here. Thanks



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