Yellow Bricks

by Duncan Epping

audio

Audio stops working on MAC / OSX

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I have this issue where my sound / audio just stops working on my Mac / OSX. Very annoying, and as I find myself searching for the command every time I have this issue I figured I would simply drop it on my blog as a reminder, much easier to find, at least for me. How do I get my audio working again? Well I simply open a terminal and kill the service responsible for it. It is then auto restarted and it starts working again (you can also kill it through the UI):

sudo killall coreaudiod

I have this problem in OSX 10.14.1, but also had it in 10.14 and 10.13.x. if anyone knows how to solve the problem please leave a comment!

OSX audio stopped working

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I have this issue regularly where the OSX audio stopped working on my Macbook. I am using High Sierra right now but had the same problem with Sierra. Not sure what is causing the problem, and not sure how to prevent it from happening. I have figured out though how to solve it, and as occasionally I find myself searching for the solution I figured I would quickly document it on my own blog. If your audio has stopped working you can simply stop the service responsible for it.

For me the following works solving the problem:

sudo killall coreaudiod

For me audio comes back again automatically almost instantly, some actually have reported they need to start the service again

sudo launchctl start com.apple.audio.coreaudiod

I hope this helps others as well as running into the same problem. If you have and you solved the problem in a different way please leave a comment.