AirPlay switches to internal speakers

Streaming music/sound from any source (including Spotify) worked fine after I upgraded to Mountain Lion half a year ago. About two weeks ago, it stopped working. When I select Airplay when Spotify is playing, there is no output for about 10 seconds, and then it switches to my internal speakers. Even when I close all apps, I can watch this happening from System Preferences - Music. When I select Airplay there without any music playing, it switches back to internal speakers after about 15 seconds. Timing-wise it may have coincided with upgrading the firm ware on my Airport Express.
Hope anyone recognises this problem, It's very frustrating, since I cannot play music over my speakers anymore.

Apparently it is a signal error occuring when there is to much disturbance from other wireless devices. E.g in department blocks, or if you use both a wireless router and airport. A friend of mine suggested turning off the wireless function on my router and connect the airport directly to the router, and then only use wireless transmition from the airport. I have not tried this yet but i believe it could work.
Worst case is that the wireless connection gets just as unstable ^.^

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I just want to add, I have the same problem, and just want to help raise awareness of it.
1st, the problem only started recently (have been using the Thunderbolt display since it was released), I did not have this problem, and noticed it beginning only in the last month. (since January)
2nd, My particular setup, includes a hard drive attached to the firewire port on the back of the Thunderbolt Display (so, I am wondering if anyone else experienced this problem with a firewire drive being connected).
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If I then select "Internal Speakers," a buffered "history" of all the sounds I did not hear is then played (pretty funny actually) - for example, if I sent mail, adjusted the volume, and started playing a song.... it immediately plays all those sounds when selecting "Internal Speakers"
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Airplay doesn't "stick" - switches to internal speakers

Streaming music/sound from any source (including Spotify) worked fine after I upgraded to Mountain Lion half a year ago. About two weeks ago, it stopped working. When I select Airplay when Spotify is playing, there is no output for about 10 seconds, and then it switches to my internal speakers. Even when I close all apps, I can watch this happening from System Preferences - Music. When I select Airplay without any music playing, it switches back to internal speakers after about 15 seconds. I can play from iTunes via AirPlay from within the app, but if I select AirTunes in System Preferences, the same happens.
Timing-wise the problem coincided with upgrading the firmware on my Airport Express to 7.6.4 (reverting to the previous version doesn't seem possible).
Hope anyone recognises this problem, It's very frustrating, since I cannot play music over my speakers anymore.

Timing-wise the problem coincided with upgrading the firmware on my Airport Express to 7.6.4 (reverting to the previous version doesn't seem possible).
Reverting to an earlier firmware version is possible with v5.6 of the AirPort Utility. Note: This version runs fine under OS X Mountain Lion but will not install without a workaround. Let me know if you need it.

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After upgrading to Yosemite on my Macbook Pro, when I switch from using the internal speakers for sound and plug in my (Apple) earbuds, the sound stops working. The sound also stops when I do the reverse and unplug my earbuds, nothing comes out of the internal speakers. The only way to restore sound is to go into System Preferences, Sound, and select the output device (internal speakers, earphones, etc..). Anyone else experiencing this problem after installing Yosemite, or know of a fix?

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Sound Preferences: switches from Internal Speakers to Digital Out

I've been having this problem recently. I sent the computer off to Apple a few weeks ago and it helped for a while, but no longer.
My computer has a problem with it's sound output jack or something. Without inserting anything into the plug, the Sound will change for "Internal Speakers" to "Digital Out" and to "Built-in Output" in the Sound Preferences Panel.
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I have a 4 month old macbook and experiencing the same problem. Just realized it after installing itunes 8 and since then having a stuttering audio playback problem too. When i plug my headphones into the audiojack the sound switches from headphones to speakers and back as well as itunes playing tracks in a stop and go mode. I repaired the rights several times, installed quicktime 7.5.5 again, reinstalled itunes 8 and for sure running the latest leopard version 10.5.5.
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Software switch between internal speakers and digital out?

I have a brand new Aluminum iMac.
My iMac is connected to my stereo receiver with the built-in S/PDIF Digital Output.
But sometimes I'd like to just use my iMac's internal speakers, so I don't need to power up the receiver.
But when I plug in the digital cable, OS X turns off my speakers, and vice-versa. The Sound Control Panel doesn't give me the option.
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Funkey Monkey wrote:
Isn't there a software option out there somewhere?
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the audio output jack electrically disconnects the speakers.
Yep, totally brain-dead -- but so is the entire analog/digital
"combo jack" nonsense. It leaves you with no way to monitor
any digital audio signal being sent to an external device.
Not with headphones OR speakers!
IMO, the only workable solution is a USB or Firewire
audio interface. If you only need digital audio output,
the cheapest stuff available ($25-ish) should be fine.
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preamps, etc. expect to pay $150 and up.
..."clever" is usually the opposite of "smart",
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New to mac...I am unable to switch audio output back to internal speakers. Output is stuck on built in output and I am getting now sound what so ever. help

On the laptop lines, there's an issue where occasionally the headphone jack gets stuck in digital mode. So look at the headphone jack on your system, and if you see a red light coming from it, it's stuck in digital mode. Most of the time if you just plug something in a time or two it'll give it the kick in the pants it needs.
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Can I disable 'digital output' and switch to internal speakers only?

Last month, a jack from a headphone broke off and got stuck in the audio input of my Macbook Pro.
They were able to get the broken peace out, but I think they damaged something in the input by pulling it out.
When I press the volume buttons I get this sign:
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When I go to audio preferences I only see 'Digital Output' as an option. (not 'internal speakers')
The Macbook still thinks there's a jack inside.
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When external speakers are plugged in to headphone jack, sound randomly goes back to internal speakers or digital audio setting, then back again

I have an essentially new MacBook Pro with Lion and all updates applied, and am wondering if this is a hardware or software problem. Essentially with something plugged into the headphone jack, things work as they are supposed to for a while, then the sound will switch back to internal speakers, or sometimes 'digital out' (I can watch it change in the system settings), and then often switch back. It doesn't seem to follow any sort of pattern or be related to any specific application that could be open, and happens with different sources of audio (iTunes, streaming from the web), and different external speakers or headphones plugged in.

Sounds hardware related. If it's brand new, and you're still under warranty I would have it checked out.
I have not experienced this on my computer.
As I understand it, you have analog RCA outputs from an 1/8" to left and right RCA outputs. when you're randomly using the computer, it'll switch to internal speakers, then to digital audio, back to your stereo analog external speakers.
This should not be happening and if it's happening with streaming content (I am unaware of anything that streams in 5.1 digital audio) then this must be something that an apple specialist should look at and consider.
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If you use LogMeIn, it is their sound driver. I'm having identical problem and it started after using LogMeIn.
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Hi. i have my audio system connected to my imac with a toslink cable which works great.
however in certain cases such as in the evening i do not need to use my surround sound system.
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I don't think there is a way to do that, unfortunately. However, I don't use the optical output capability (just analog), so it may be different.
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My internal speakers aren't working consistently. One second I hear sound and then the next I hear nothing. I checked "System Preferences > Sound > Output" and can see that the selected device keeps randomly switching from Internal Speakers to Digital Out to Headphones. Why is this happening, and how do I fix it?
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In case anyone has had the same problem as me, I have just managed to fix this by doing the following:
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Switch off Mac again
Remove power cord and wait 15 seconds
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