Weird Audio Glitch

This is surely one of the weirdiest problems I had with Skype so far: Anytime I put my earphones or headphones, and while I'm listening to anything (videos, song, podcasts, etc.) I can hear to it normally, but whenever a friend on Skype sends me a message for example, instead of playing the incoming message sound, it makes anything I'm listening to on my earphones play through the speakers instead for few seconds, then goes back to my earphones again. This isn't a big issue, but it annoyes me since I usually have conversations through chat at night, and if I'm listening to any song, and anyone is sleeping in my bedroom, the audio always comes out on the speakers for few seconds, and it usually plays in a really loud volume, easily waking up anyone who's in the bedroom sleeping.
Has this happened to anyone else? If so, does anyone knows how to fix this?

HI Jeff,
Have you opened your System Preferences/Sound/Output and checked that your external audio is set correctly? Since it's, "every program" .. check to make sure in the Output window that the slider is all the way to right.
Carolyn

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Maybe there are other people in my user pool having the same issue as him, but I haven't heard of it. He seems to be the only one, or a rare one.
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I've been producing an audio podcast for over a year now and recently my audio recordings have developed an intermittent and random bug.
Have a listen to http://gamerdork.net/audiobug.mp3 if you will, please.
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I can't give you a definitive answer. From your excerpt it sounds as if the fault is on the incoming sound from Skype, since there is an undistorted voice, presumably the local speaker, and we hear the Skype disconnection sound.
There are two faults. One is the fizzing noise and the distortion which renders it nearly unintelligible. This is typical of a ludicrously low sampling rate and/or bitrate. Skype isn't exactly hifi, but it doesn't use rates as low as this: however if the connection is poor then possibly it may auto-adapt and be overdoing it.
The other fault is the repetition. Sound coming through a digital system usually comes through a buffer, so that small delays in the incoming digital signal can be 'mopped up' and not audible. Most systems react to a longer break by blanking out: but I've heard cases where an interruption in a digital signal causes the buffer to repeat until it gets some more data.
So this points to a connection which is both very slow and liable to breaks of maybe half a second to a second. The next questions to ask are, does this happen on Skype incoming audio only, or have you ever heard it on audio coming from some other source? If it's Skype, does it happen with one particular contributor? Does he have a poor connection - dial-up, for example? - or possibly something causing a temporary problem?
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I'm on Logic 9.1.1 on a recent MacPro using 10.5.8, 12Gb memory. I've created an arrangement in Logic with two multi timbral / multi-output instruments (Kontakt and Stylus RMX - both up to date versions) with aux outputs for all of the instruments channels; 16 in the case of Kontakt, 8 in the case of RMX.
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I've omitted it being down to my audio interface (Metric Halo 2882) as the problem persists if I switch to the Mac internal I/O.
I'm trying to work through this at the mo as I've got a deadline for 2pm this afternoon - but I'm worried I might not make it due to throwing my feckin computer out the window. Please help - thanks!

Alasdair Reid wrote:
It's as if Aphex Twin has invaded my Mac...
If your deadline wasn't looming, I'd say buss everything to a stereo track and record this stuff. It sounds great, you could use it in another project later...
But to your problem: The only quick solution I can think of for you to try is to create a brand new fresh project and use the selective track import feature to bring your tracks into the new project. Don't start from an old template (that you may still be using since Logic 8 or something) because this could indeed be the root of the problem. Build a new template from Logic 9.1.1, then make a new project from that and import all your tracks. If it's your project that's corrupted somehow, this could be the trick to solve it, and it won't take too long to try, so it's worth a shot.
I'm not sure of this, but something is telling me I've seen this problem before, and if so it was on Leopard (not Snow Leopard) on a MacPro in the studio. Have never had it on my personal MBP (which was only ever Tiger and then Snow Leopard - I skipped Leopard on purpose because the studio machines seemed so very dicey). Also, I don't use RMX on my own machine but in the studio, yes. Same deal for multiple output instruments, I rarely do that either. On that point, another thing you could try is to forget about multiple outs for now, and just work with stereo instances. Yes I realize this will mess up your entire painstakingly built-up mix.. but if this is causing the flakiness you may have no choice but to go back to stereo instances, finish your writing, then do the whole mute/solo thing to bounce your individual parts to audio and proceed from there. In this scenario, selective track import will be a timesaver too because once you've done all the bouncing, you can just create a new project and import all of your channel strips and so on, to then re-assign the individually bounced tracks to the assignments you had before. Will be quicker to recreate your mix than having to do it from scratch. Or you might not even need to do this step because if eliminating the multi-out instruments makes the prob go away, then you can just recreate your assignments within the same project using the bounced audio tracks.
Get to it.
Once you've delivered.. I'd open that project again and record all of that lovely Aphex Twin messiness for later use.

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Thanks for the response. I started looking for Audioblack in the New Asset list, the Transitions and Effects, all through Audition, manuals, Internet, everything, and about all that I found was reference to an indie band - "Audioblack," or comments attributed to you. I have a lot of material from Dolby, from when I first began using 5.1 Surround in DVDs, but did not see this term there. It was probably in some of their more technical papers, and not the "primer" course ones, that I already had. You very clearly pointed out *what* the problem was likely to be, but I wanted clarification as to the exact solution. You cleared that up beautifully.
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