Apple TV audio issues

Hi. I have a third generation Apple TV. I have an HDMI running directly into my Yamaha receiver. When I toggle back and forth between Apple TV and my regular TV, I am more often that not losing audio. I am not using an optical audio cord. Could someone help? Also to be clear I have all my HDMI cords running to my receiver, thus I change my input from my receiver and never have to change the input on my television. Many thanks.

AppleTV 2 cannot send audfio to an Airport Express.
Is the stereo connected to Express using analogue or mini Toslink to Toslink?
AppleTV 2 will output audio over HDMI and Toslink simultaneously. Many have recently found updates prevent AppleTV outputting audio over Toslink if the TV is off or there is no HDMI connection.
AppleTV 2 apparently changes audio to 48 kHz 16 bit for stereo output - possible the stereo can't handle this?
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Hi Guys,
i am really hoping someone can help me with this as its driving me crazy and i cant seem to find anyone else with a similiar issue in the vast rececess of the interenet. Up in my Studio i have a 2010 imac with everything up to date in terms of updates, hooked up to that i have my lacie external hardrive that contains all my tv shows and films that i have ripped from dvds using Handbrake on apple TV settings.
Downstairs i have a 3rd generation apple TV hooked up to my Sony TV via HDMI, the apple TV is connected directly to a network port in the wall and so is the imac, I use the computer tab on apple TV to watch the films and shows stored on my lacie on my TV downstairs and everything works beautifuly EXCEPT every now and then i will add a new show or film to my itunes and for some reason my apple TV doesnt like it very much!
for example; i have ripped and converted three seasons of father ted to my hardrive and added it to my itunes, it plays perfectly on my imac using itunes, but when i click to view it on the apple TV downstairs the audio has been sped up! the picture is running at normal speed... i have also had a few shows play fine on the imac and yet when they play on apple TV the audio is about 3 seconds ahead of the picture.
Its very frustrating as its random and i cant find a solution to it, and i can normally figure these things out! i have tried:
- reconverting the shows and adding to itunes
- deleting from itunes, resetting apple TV and itunes and adding them again
- looking for any similarities in the files affected
im getting NOTHING!
any ideas or help would be massively appriciated as im at a loss as to what to try next!
Thanks in advance
Jim

Managed to solve this problem myself, it turns out that the files that were causing issues had two audio tracks attached, when the file is loaded i press and hold the middle button to bring up the options, from there press right to the middle tab and change the audio from surround to normal and it plays at normal speed, i have no idea why it was doing this but i can now watch ALL my material finally! hopefully this helps someone else!
Jim

New Audio Issues with Apple TV

As of last week my Apple TV has not been able to play audio on a consistant basis. I have it connected to a Samsung TV which is connected to Sony Soundbar Station. The Apple TV audio plays for 2 seconds but then switches to the Cable Audio. I have had the Apple TV for 2 years with no issues before last week. I am playing my movies from my Macbook Pro (last 2008 model)
It seems to be a problem that many are having. Has anyone found a solution or should I just restore the unit?
Thanks,
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I've found that more times than not, some devices DO NOT like converters.
For example, I had a Mini-HDMI to Full-sized HDMI converter. It never worked no matter what I tried. But the pieces independantly worked fine.
So I finally had to buy a cable that had Full-sized HDMI on one end and Mini-HDMI on the other. With no adaptors. Then everything worked fine.
Just something to think about.
Just wondering though.
Why not connect the Optical cables directly from the TV to the Stereo instead of trying to create adaptor bridges from the Apple TV.
What may be happening is that the Audio is automatically going through the HDMI and not wanting to use the aux audio setup you have created.
If you are intent on keeping the setup this way, you need to go through the device settings to see what can be changed.

HT201777 WHAT IS CAUSING THE NO AUDIO ISSUE ON APPLE TV?????

I work at a school. Every single classroom has an apple TV device connected to all projectors.
Staff constantly have issues where they are seeing visual but NO SOUND.
We created an Airplay Audio Fix in which they can install! (takes about 10 seconds) this disconnects them from the ATV.
Once they connect back up as per normal and use audio the audio comes back instantly.
We are unsure of what is causing the NO SOUND issue.
We know how to fix it otherwise (powering off ATV, unplugging the cables etc... OR OUR AIRPLAY FIX which saves us a lot of time from running from classroom to classroom.
DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT IS CAUSING THE NO AUDIO ISSUE? I HAVE COME TO A CONCLUSION THAT IT MAY BE BECAUSE STAFF ARE NOT DISCONNECTING FROM THE ATV BEFORE THEY LEAVE THE CLASSROOM I.E. CLOSING THE LAPTOP LID, WALKING AWAY FROM THE CLASSROOM VIA THE IPAD ETC..
THIS MAY NOT BE THE CASE AND AM WONDERING IF ANYONE KNOW WHY THE ISSUE OCCURS. I DON'T NEED TO KNOW HOW TO FIX AND WE HAVE A SIMPLE FIX BUT JUST THE CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM.
ANY INFORMATION WOULD BE HIGHLY APPRECIATED.
THANKS FOR ANY SUPPORT.

Could be network bandwidth issue transiently if Macbook makes loads of wi-fi accesses when starting.
Could be wireless router transiently becoming unresponsive to AppleTv while it negotiates with the new device.
Could be the MacBook finding AppleTV and some communication between them taking priority on the AppleTV such that AppleTV can't handle the music playback too - it should be designed to be resilient to this sort of thing, but it isn't a very powerful device and some hiccups i think are due to it's hardware not coping, just like a computer becoming transiently unresponsive if CPU hogged by some process.
If you are opening iTunes on Macbook, try unchecking 'Look for AppleTVs' in Preferences - I seem to recall a few people saying this helped a similar issue, and it would imply that this prevented some interaction between itunes and AppleTV that stopped other functions transiently.

Bootcamp 3.1 and imac windows 7 64bit update not installing. Audio issues!

After many days of work getting the windows 7 working in bootcamp in my imac 27 (still with audio issues) I eagerly awaited the bootcamp update and imac updates.
Neither will install.
Then I find that according to tech support as of now I have to reinstall Windows 7 again for the updates to work!
It took me 5 full 8 hours days to get all my scientific programs installed and working, now I find I can't even simply update the drivers I need. I don't want to reinstall.
My only issues are audio.
Here they are:
1) The headset jack works fine on the Mac side, but in Windows 7, it causes the i7 intel CPU to go crazy. There is no CPU spike on the mac side.
2) The headset jack in the imac is a trrs jack. The same as in the iphone, a tri-band jack that has three bands, two audio out channels and one mic in channel. A trrs headset works fine on the mac side with using the headset mic (as in iphone) rather than the built in mic. (this provides much better quality for sound recording). I don't want to use a usb mike.
In Windows 7 the mic part of the trrs headset does not work.
3) In Windows 7 when going into audio devices recording, no audio mixer shows up, so when I do video or audio screen capture the only way to capture the sound is through the speakers and then back through the imac built in mic, rather than directly through the unit. (terrible sound quality) On the mac side the mixer element works fine.
Now I find from other imac users that even the new updates for the imac on windows 7 don't address and fix the audio issues. I am sure not going to go through 5 more days work only to find the audio issues still don't work.
I need these audio aspects to work properly though!
I have tried to get drivers for the cirrus logic audio card, but guess what there are none available and cirrus logic doesn't even recognize the board or offer drivers.
I have many windows programs I must have for my scientific research!I bought the top of the line Imac with all the bells and whistles because Apple promised that the machine could run Windows 7 in bootcamp natively!
It doesn't. This has been a nightmare of problems.
Is Apple going to step up to the plate and make good on their promises?
Does any one have a fix for any of the audio issues, or know how to install the new drivers without a complete reinstall of Windows?
Installing a few sound drivers and software should not require a complete reinstall. Getting the proper drivers for the headset jack audio in and audio out jack should be the most basic of fixes. Making the audio mixer work should be elementary.
If you are an Apple tech person or an Apple user that can help on these issues, please do!
Thanks, Dr. Duke
An American profesor in Europe.
PS I will post this under Imac windows 7 updates without a reinstall and under
imac Sound issues.

On another thread a few people have responded saying that their imac has the same situation, the cpu is going crazy and the imac gets hot with headphones or speakers plugged in. But this doesn't happen in the mac side.
If you have an late 2009 imac and don't have these audio issues, let us hear from you. If you don't, lay out the problem here.
Here is my last two cents in to the inquiry.
Not only does the cpu run crazy but the imac 27 gets very, very hot. Since I unplugged the headphones, it runs much, much cooler.
Certainly, some Mac engineers should take care of this problem, it seems it is universal on all the imac 27's and from what I gather, the smaller screened cousins too.
Also, we certainly want a stereo mix option for audio in or out, or what is called "what you hear" or wave out. Imac is supposed to be much geared to multimedia apps.
Finally, the mic jack part of the trrs set up MUST be fixed! A lot of manufacturers are going to headset combo jacks as they call them, mic in and stereo out on the same tribanded plug. But, the old single jack for mic in and single jack for stereo out are two tiny parts of the hardware and super inexpensive for the manufacturer. Why in the **** to go to the "advanced" triplug if the **** thing doesn't work.
Mac has a great reputation. I hope they remedy these problems right away.
Anyone whose imac 27 or 24 whose headset plug is working correctly. Let us know! I don't think anyone's is, but I think that few people understand that their cpu is running so much faster with the plug in, plus few even understand the combo jack and the triband, or trrs audio jack! Out of 4 audio technicians I talked to, not one of them knew what a trrs jack was or that you even have a mic in jack as part of the headset jack!
When I told one senior that it worked on the Mac side, he didn't believe for a while, thought my sound might be recorded from the onboard mic, but I proved it to him by tapping iaudibly on my iphone mic headset and and it showing up in garage band clearly and listening to big difference in audio.
As for a usb audio adapter, I am in a neon light environment and find that those adapters are more sensitive to electrical interference. Besides I want to use the headset jack as it was meant to be used!
Thats it.
Again, if anyone using an imac 27 and windows 7 64 or 32 doesnt have these problems, let us know! We are all anxious for a fix!
Best to all!

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Everyone does things a little differently. I love to "jam " along with iTunes ( or old Lp's) . Always have. That's where/how I've learned to play .
I'm sure leonieDF is giving a proper way to jam along on a keyboard with an iTune. He blows my mind all the time with what he knows. Nuff respects to him !
What I do is make a GB project I call "Jam With". I'll make several new tracks that are blank. Just has a few instruments named in the blank tracks. You can change those per song ...
Because I'm not concerned about changing the pitch / key.... of the iTune or the tempo ... I can simply play along with it.
Peace,
P. Dreadie

My iPhone 5 is suddenly having audio issues through the headphone jack.

So this is a strange situation, and I'll try to explain in depth so that someone might be able to suggest a solution. As reference, I have an iPhone 5 that I purchased in late-February. I've had every other model of iPhone except for the first iPhone, so I am pretty familiar with the device. I used to be on AT&T, and switched to Verizon when I upgraded to the iPhone 5.
Two days ago, I was on a six hour road-trip, and I'd been playing my music like normal through my car's auxillary cable. After stopping for lunch, I went to plug my music again, but once the music started to play, I realized that only the drums were playing at normal levels while the vocals were very, very soft. I switched through a few different songs, and realized that all the songs were being played at different levels; sometimes the backup vocals were normal levels while the instrumentation and lead vocals were quiet, or vice versa. I decided to plug my iPhone in to charge, and when I did this, the audio levels were all normal. However, the iPhone was NOT charging. I removed the charger, and the audio went back to being weak and distorted. I went back and forth at this for a bit, trying to figure out what was going on.
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Yes.
http://support.apple.com/kb/SP576

STILL have MBP audio issues after Bootcamp 3.1

I have a mid-2009 MBP 13" with Snow Leopard, running 32-bit XP Professional with SP3. I just updated to Bootcamp 3.1 after dealing with low audio, robo-voice from the internal microphone, and spooky red light/trackpad nonsense for months. While 3.1 fixed the red light and the trackpad, my audio issues still remain; I get very poor volume on the Windows side and my voice is still distorted, slow and generally crappy when I use the built-in microphone in the microphone test. The mic doesn't work at all in Steam, which is the whole reason I want it. Was 3.1 supposed to fix these audio issues? It doesn't explicitly say so on the download page, but it seems like it's been quite effective for other people, so if it is supposed to fix the audio I suppose I'm going down to the Apple Store.
If 3.1 wasn't a magic bullet, can anyone suggest a fix? I'm pretty fed up by now with this issue. I tried reinstalling the drivers after extracting them from the BC 2.2 update (found that process on these forums), and it did nothing. The link to the New Jersey school's site (another suggestion from the forums) no longer works for whatever reason.
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http://www.guru3d.com/category/driversweeper/
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Also CCleaner can help.
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Programs control panel of course to uninstall the program
Device Manager to rollback; or uninstall and manage device drivers
Apple installs a number of drivers, services, startupitems so you really have to get familiar with the OS and where/how to manage things.
Windows 7 supports RESTORE POINTS. Use 'em! and set one before just in case (any good installer or update should create a new one but good to have your own), and make sure there is 10-30GB of space for restore points.
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Mavericks 10.9.1 Upgrade = Audio issue (lost 5.1 through HDMI)

Hello guys and gals,
I've Macbook pro 15" retina connected as follow
Macbook Pro -> Sony HT -> LG LED TV (55LA7400)
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I just upgraded to 10.9.1 and experience Audio issue.
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That sounds more like a weird enviromental issue.
Disconnect the external speakers from the computer and leave the disconnected. See if the audio issues go away. If they do, then you know the culprit.
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iOS: How to troubleshoot Bluetooth connections
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4562
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Make sure that your Bluetooth accessory is turned on and fully charged or connected to power.
Restart your iOS device.
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Any solutions?
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In addition to that, both headsets work perfectly well, when connected to iPhone 4S.
Eventually, both iPhone 5 itself and SIM card have been exchanged by the provider. Unfortunately the problem still exists.

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I'm very curious what changed in OS 3.1 since 3.0/3.0.1 for the bluetooth...
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You can get the Bluetooth Audio streaming working? I can't get that to sync up properly. sigh ...
I called Apple and they documented everything for me ... Case # 140385552
If you can do a test call for me that would be amazing! Just keep talking ... you should be able to hear the audio compression problem (and so should the person you're talking to) ...
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I'm using the USB cable. I can get the audio to pause and play using USB cable.
Again, I'm unsuccessful with the BT Audio Streaming part.
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MBP Audio issue

I have a brand new out the box MBP 15" 2.2ghz and have been experiencing audio problems in the last few days.
I am running osx 10.6.8
Playback in Itunes becomes patchy when the volume is at full or in general volume is quite loud. When i turn music up audio starts to cut out followed by everything freezing up momentarily (around 5secs).
I originally thought this was an itunes issue but seems to occur when using Spotify also so now i feel it must be a operating system/ audio issue.
Anyone got any ideas? I have reinstalled osx and updated all software with no joy. Can see nothing unusual when activity monitor is open either.
A bug in 10.6.8?
Thanks for any help in advance.

Hello, I would suggest you contact AppleCare. If you have already reinstalled OSX that usually solves any problems.
They will be able to help you out and fix the problem.
I remember them mentioning something to me about deleteing the iTunes plist when I was having issues with my iTunes, However if you are having issues with 3rd party audio applications, That says to me that it is something wrong with your soundcard or something along those lines.
Like I mentioned already, Give AppleCare a call, and ask for a case ID number, Incase the issue comes up again after your phone call is over, You can setup a genius bar appointment at your nearest Apple store and give them the case ID number.
Hope this helps some!

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