"Play stereo audio as mono" disabled after restart

Question

I've been using the "Play stero audio as mono" option in Universal Access, but ever time I restart, the setting is disabled.  As far as I know, this is the only setting that does this.  I also have the "Balance" slider bar all the way to the left in the Sound control panel; this persists through restarts.  What can I do to fix this?

Answer 1

Philmac88 wrote:
the setting still resets itself after restarting.
Then I'm stumped. I don't know why or what to do.
You could go around the issue by running a script at login to set this option. Here's a script I found on the net:
--script begins
on run
          tell application "System Preferences"
  activate
                    reveal anchor "Hearing" of pane id "com.apple.preference.universalaccess"
          end tell
          tell application "System Events" to tell process "System Preferences"
  click checkbox 2 of tab group 1 of window 1
          end tell
          quit application "System Preferences"
end run
--script ends
(It requires the "Enable access for assistive devices" pref to be enabled.)
Save it as an app in a convenient location (eg, <~/Library/Scripts>), and add it to your Login Items. It will run every time you log back in. Note that this is a toggle—if the preference is on, it will turn it off.