Audio in is working, but no audio out on internal speakers (with or without headphones.)

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I'm using an intel iMac 17" I tried to plug in an external cassette deck, and listen to it through the internal speakers. Even though all system prefs for audio work as expected, and I can see the audio meters on screen operating, nothing will induce it to play sound either through the internal speakers, or headphones.
The audio is certainly going in there, as it recorded perfectly in iMovie. The internal speakers work perfectly for alerts, iTunes, the web, everything. But no external device will work.
I've tried an iPod, a microphone, and a cassette deck, all with the same result. I've launched Garage Band as this can upset the midi player, but it's fine. I've visually checked the settings, no problem.
As an alternative I also tried an iMic and stopped using the jack input on the iMac. Still nothing. I plugged headphones into the iMic, nothing. No audio will play unless it's already on the Mac. External audio goes in there and dies before it reaches the speakers.
All the visual info I get in the sound panel regarding connection options, output etc, is exactly as expected, I just can't get any audio at all.
Does anyone have any suggestions? There's only a few day's warranty left...
Many thanks.
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Hello David,
Thanks for the pointer. I looked at the website for Linein, and I already have Audio Hijack pro installed, which contains this application. When I ask AH to record the system audio, the volume meters are dead, I hear nothing, and record nothing - unlike iMovie.
When I do ask it to record, I can hear a thumping sound from the Mac speakers, but nothing else.
I'm really desperate for a solution to this; I can't understand why it's so hard to achieve. If it was just the line in socket I'd suspect that, but a USB connection as well? I don't understand that at all.

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Hello,
unfortunately I snapped my optical audio plug in my iMac and now it's stuck in the jack. What a mess. Until I take it to the service, I would like to use my internal speakers. Most unfortunately, as the part of the plug is still stuck in the jack, the iMac recognises external speakers.
Is there a way to switch to the internal speakers by software?
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As an alternative, you can get a USB to Audio adapter which plugs into a USB port and has audio input and output jacks. That should enable you to use your external speakers, bypassing the broken audio jack.
StarTech sells [THIS MODEL|http://www.startech.com/item/ICUSBAUDIO-USB-20-to-Audio-Adapter.aspx] for $23. I'm sure there are others.

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The last few times I've used headphones in my iPad, the audio has been all messed up to the extent where it's better to just use the internal speakers and not the headphones. I've tried multiple pairs of headphones to no avail.
The iPad was bought in mid-June, but I did not get extended Apple-Care warranty on it. Any idea of what's happenening?

Multiple means how many? If only 2 or 3, they could all be faulty. Try the headphones in some other device, to make sure they are OK. Or there could be something wrong with the headphone port.
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HP Pavilion dv6135nr Notebook internal speakers have stopped working. I can hear sounds on headphones but no sound via the internal speakers. A search on HP customer care for my notebook yielded the download recommendation below, even though I had not stated my problem. However, executing this download did NOT resolve the problem. Please advise regarding resolution to inoperable speakers. I do not know if all of my sound and audio settings are correct, but the mute is not on and the volume controls are properly set. The default device is Conexant High Definition Audio output, per the sound and audio devices properties hardware tab the device status states "this device is working properly." Is it possible that a Skype or Foxfire update is in conflict with this device? If so, how do I resolve this situation?
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Description: This package contains the driver for the Conexant High Definition Audio Chip.
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System requirements: HP SoftPaq Number SP32646, "Microsoft Universal Audio Architecture (UAA) Bus Driver for High Definition Audio," (or later) must be installed on the notebook before installing this SoftPaq. Look for HP SoftPaq Number SP32646 (or later) in the Software and Driver Downloads section of the www.hp.com website. Released: 2006-12-01 Version: 3.26.0.0 A Compatibility: Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, Microsoft Windows XP Media Center, Microsoft Windows XP Fix/Enhancement: Fixes issue where the notebook speakers do not work after headphones or earphones are used for a while and then unplugged.

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I'm thinking about getting the Apple TV for both video and for playing my music on my home stereo system. I currently have an old amp with only analog audio capabilities, but the new ATV looks like it only supports digital optical out, and the digital to analog converters I've looked for seem pretty expensive. How can I get the audio from my music collection (iTunes) to play wirelessly through ATV through my amp?
I currently also have an Airport Express which I use for audio, but I was thinking of selling that and just using the ATV since the ATV can essentially do the same thing as the AX with added video benefit. I've seen some threads on streaming audio from the ATV to the AX, but do I really need both? Seems like there should be another way.
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-- AirportExpress come with single combo mini jack (digital + analog) for audio output regardless of old/new models. You can connect either digital optical link (with Mini/Toslink adaptor) to digital input of DAC or analog line cable (inferior) to analog line input of amplifier. When analog line is used, digital-to-analog conversion is done by DAC built into AirportExpress for which do not expect quality is as good as most external DAC models. What do you expect from a single-chip DAC implementation vs standalone DAC models cost few thousand dollars ? Moreover analog line is susceptible to interference more than digital line.
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How can I keep audio out to my speakers?

Not sure what I am doing wrong. I have external speakers, and they work great. The only problem is that I can configure them to the line out area in the sound control panel, but, they seem to have a mind of their own, and will allow the computer to switch back to the internal speakers, either when I shut down, or I go to another program that doesn't use the sound. Any way to insure that the line out stays as my option?
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Hmm... not a bad idea! I even checked and apparently an ATI Radeon 7000 supports video-out. Gonna see if I can get one for cheap - maybe on ebay. This will work fine with Panther or Tiger?
I've even considered buying a PC version of a Radeon card and flashing it to work with my G4, but that is very sketchy, even for me.
Will let you know how this turns out. Any other ideas are welcome
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Mike
The not very expensive but also discontinued ATI
Radeon 8500 Mac Edition AGP card has VGA DVI and
S-Video out. Maybe you could try to find a used one
on the market... I bough one through other world
computing within the last year for not very much...
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Audio jack and internal speakers not working!

So my internal speakers no onger work and when I put in my Apple iPhone earphones there is a high pitched sound and they become very hot to the touch. This happened when they were in my ear, not cool. I love my computer and I would hate to give it up for a German keyboard (I bought my computer in NYC and now I live in Switzerland) or not having it for an extended period of time. Comments? Suggestions? Help? Scheisse!

hi neuroanatomist,
thx for your suggestion
I read about it, but it doesn't really work for me (or maybe I wasn't able to have it work)
So there is no actual fix to this?

No Audio Output or Internal Speakers

Just this weekend my computer suddenly stopped emitting any sound. I can change the volume levels but there are no "chirping" sounds when I change it. I have no sound when I restart my computer, I fiddled with the audio output jack to see if it was the switch, but nothing happened.
My computer thinks it has sound. Sometimes when I try to have it make sound it will make a small pop sound. Other than that, nothing at all.

I'm having the same sort of troubles. I checked the Sound pane in Preferences, and that fixed it once, where under Output it was set incorrectly.
But since then, I've been having trouble even doing that: It's stopped detecting if I have headphones plugged in, and says only "Internal Speakers". Under that, instead of controls, it says "The selected device has no output controls".
So what have I ended up doing? I noticed that AirPhones worked (software-based, forwards over wifi to your iPhone, sounds like a 96kbps MP3 at times) -- occasionally as what I assume is a side-effect of this problem, iTunes stops playing and stays at 0:00 even when the Play button changes to Pause -- So given that another sound option worked, I decided I'd plug in my Creative E-MU 0404 to use as an external sound card. And the sound is perfect.
I'd suggest anyone having troubles with their Mac's sound card to add a new one. Unfortunately, you'll need to skip any PCIe Creative sound cards, and even likely most of the X-Fi series, as the USB ones I looked at don't support Mac. The best thing to get, it looks like, is the Creative Xmod. It has Mac, Linux and Windows compatibility, and will work with a power adapter with any MP3 player. It will sound AMAZING, I promise. My dad has one, actually.
Those looking for excuses to use XLR mics or MIDI in Garageband, grab something like the Creative EMU 0404 if you're made of money (sigh) or if you have Firewire for extra XLR inputs, pay the extra. (It's worth it for the flexibility. I'd rather have 8 channels for 3 times the price than the 2 channels I have now. Live and learn.)
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