Audio gets choppy and becomes unusable after a few weeks of uptime
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After 20-30 days, the audio, across the board, starts to get choppy (music, Skype, even system sounds). After a day or so, it eventually gets to where the choppiness is so bad that audio is completely unusable. The only thing that I've found that fixes it is a reboot. Sigh... I've tried closing every application, plugging and unplugging the speakers, and chanting, and nothing but rebooting helps. As far as I can tell, there is no way to "restart" the audio system specifically.
Anyone else being annoyed by this problem?
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This is a puzzle alright. A SMC Reset can clear problems of no sound but I don't think that is what's happening here. Perhaps using a system managenent Application like OnyX would keep the conflicting signals from becoming a problem.
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