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Apple has not fixed the macOS audio left/right balance bug for nearly 10 years

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Re: Apple has not fixed the macOS audio left/right balance bug for nearly 10 years

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Post by P_I_Staker »

For some reason they think basic features of apple music should never work. Guess I'm the problem, because this is unusable, yet I won't cancel.

P.S. I'm specifically talking about certain playlist management features not working. Specifically, the "add next" simply has never worked well.

I think it's only on PC, but they do something to make your playlists unusable, if they're large. I think shuffle doesn't work at all for my uses (perhaps for tiny playlists where shuffle barely matters)

Weirdly, most of this seems by design, although it's not hard to see why. Apple doesn't want shuffle to compete with their algorithm, but WTF did we end up with? Streaming services riddled with user hostile design.

Re: Apple has not fixed the macOS audio left/right balance bug for nearly 10 years

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Post by pinebox »

mschuster91 wrote: post #83
TwistedWave wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have just reported a bug where high memory pressure could cause memory pages from the real-time audio thread to get swapped out, causing audio glitches. I am not hopeful for a timely resolution now...

> I have just reported a bug where high memory pressure could cause memory pages from the real-time audio thread to get swapped out, causing audio glitches. By any chance, is that problem related to the new Microsoft Teams and its incoming-call notification sound? Ever since the Sonoma update and the coinciding Teams switch it's glitching horribly.

> the new Microsoft Teams and its incoming-call notification sound

I absolutely have this issue and would love to know more about any suspected causes.

Re: Apple has not fixed the macOS audio left/right balance bug for nearly 10 years

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Post by piperswe »

jwells89 wrote: post #156
soundnote wrote: post #146

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Apart from MS's obsessive Bing pushing, I'd say Windows is easily better than macOS. Explorer beats Finder, PWA/Chrome profile support is nicer, window manager is better, archives are handled natively, touchpad gestures for eg. virtual desktops on small laptops are competitive. With a normal mouse, middle click for eg. hold to drag just isn't supported. The natural scroll settings for mouse and trackpad are bound, wh…

A lot of that is subjective. For me for example, Explorer vs. Finder is mostly a wash with Finder edging out Explorer in a few ways (e.g. toggling hidden file visibility with the key shortcut ⌘⇧. instead of having to dive into settings), and Windows window management is grating to the point that I have to keep a hard low limit on the number of programs open to get anything done under it. Archives are handled natively…

Windows supports just about every archive format natively now too, thanks to libarchive integration.

Re: Apple has not fixed the macOS audio left/right balance bug for nearly 10 years

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Post by treprinum »

pdimitar wrote: post #95

Long ranty post. I'll use the occasion to crap on macOS because yes, I experienced this, not to mention random devices disconnecting in conditions of higher memory pressure (i.e. starting a k8s cluster and doing tests, then tearing it down, then starting another etc.) -- one time even my keyboard disconnected which was annoying to say the least. To this day my $300 dock sometimes doesn't at all get detected after I w…

My $8000 M3 Max MacBook is having all kinds of crazy issues so it's not just Intel... Apple pays significantly less to SWengs than Meta/Google so I guess you get what you paid for on their side. I just wish I got what I paid for as well.

Re: Apple has not fixed the macOS audio left/right balance bug for nearly 10 years

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Post by pdimitar »

treprinum wrote: post #164
pdimitar wrote: post #95

Long ranty post. I'll use the occasion to crap on macOS because yes, I experienced this, not to mention random devices disconnecting in conditions of higher memory pressure (i.e. starting a k8s cluster and doing tests, then tearing it down, then starting another etc.) -- one time even my keyboard disconnected which was annoying to say the least. To this day my $300 dock sometimes doesn't at all get detected after I w…

My $8000 M3 Max MacBook is having all kinds of crazy issues so it's not just Intel... Apple pays significantly less to SWengs than Meta/Google so I guess you get what you paid for on their side. I just wish I got what I paid for as well.

Yikes. I'm really sorry you're going through this. Are you considering alternatives, or are you collecting fixes?

Re: Apple has not fixed the macOS audio left/right balance bug for nearly 10 years

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Post by NoNoisle »

pohuing wrote: post #89
shiroiushi wrote: post #47

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It's a winning business strategy, especially when you have legions of die-hard customers who won't leave you. Microsoft has a similar situation (though many probably won't leave MS for different reasons), so it's in their business interest to increase profits by subjugating their customers with annoying ads baked into the OS. What do they have to lose? It's not like Apple's/MS's customers are going to switch to Linux…

Except apple does also put ads in their os. And you can't even permanently disable them, the iCloud nagware comes back every once in a while trying to sell me overpriced storage.

Is it saying your storage is full or why is it nagging you?

Re: Apple has not fixed the macOS audio left/right balance bug for nearly 10 years

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Post by smcleod »

donatj wrote: post #18
tmikaeld wrote: post #14

The left/right channels drifting randomly is one thing (SoundSource fixes it), but it gets worse.. I've been trying to raise awareness of Apples horrible audio issues for quite a few years now. Driver re-starts and USB re-connects, for no apparent reason. [0][1] I have the issue on Mac Mini (2018) Intel, Mac Studio M1, Macbook Pro M2, so it's not device specific. [0] https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/132423 […

I use an external DAC and encounter this crackling problem regularly. I have to unplug/replug my DAC to get it to go back to normal. I just thought it was a hardware problem with my DAC because it’s getting up there in the years, thought the caps might be going. Hmm…

I wonder if the clock source is getting out of whack with the DACs, it could be caused by extreme jitter.

Re: Apple has not fixed the macOS audio left/right balance bug for nearly 10 years

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Post by smcleod »

avery17 wrote: post #145
Night_Thastus wrote: post #133

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This seems unusual for such a serious memory leak to be present. Do you have any addons/plugins in Firefox? One of them may be the cause of the leak.

Uptime, 456 days 12 hours 8 minutes and 42 seconds. Firefox, 668 tabs. Countless other background tasks. Why doesn't my audio work!?!

That… is not a good idea. You should patch your OS.

Re: Apple has not fixed the macOS audio left/right balance bug for nearly 10 years

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Post by plussed_reader »

skuhn wrote: post #152
plussed_reader wrote: post #151

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There had been a grounded tail for apple powerbticks back to the era of g4 laptops. https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/shopping?q=tbn:ANd9GcSyVF...

It's still sold, just not included by default anymore (which is fine with me, since I have tons of them) https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MK122LL/A/power-adapter-e...

You can find cheaper than paying the apple tax for that plastic and metal item that has been in production for 20+ years.
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