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woodman · May 26th, 2009, 06:10 PM

after concentrating on getting my garden in for a few weeks, i'm back in the studio trying to get my band recording project finished. however, not having changed anything in my system, an extremely annoying problem has popped up: the system simply forgets how to generate audio, or at least gets disinclined to.

for instance, if i'm in iTunes and hit Play, the Play icon turns into the Pause icon (meaning it thinks it's playing) but the track bar doohickey doesn't advance — it just sits there in silence. ... since my monitor system is running via an Alesis Firewire interface/mixer, i'll check System Prefs ... yep, the Alesis is engaged, but the system appears to be ignoring it. then i'll restart, check Prefs again, and the Alesis has vanished from the Prefs box! usually one more restart will get things running correctly again. but this is no way to run a railroad!

as an experiment the other night, i made sure the audio was functional when i closed up shop and left the machine on all night (didn't put it to sleep or shut anything down). checked it in the morning and sure enough — audio had left the building. what in the consarned cat-hair do ya reckon is going on?

May 26th, 2009, 06:10 PM	#1 (permalink)
woodman Poster Extraordinaire Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Mint Hill, NC Age: 63 Posts: 8,124	audio has left the building ... ??? (Mac content) after concentrating on getting my garden in for a few weeks, i'm back in the studio trying to get my band recording project finished. however, not having changed anything in my system, an extremely annoying problem has popped up: the system simply forgets how to generate audio, or at least gets disinclined to. for instance, if i'm in iTunes and hit Play, the Play icon turns into the Pause icon (meaning it thinks it's playing) but the track bar doohickey doesn't advance — it just sits there in silence. ... since my monitor system is running via an Alesis Firewire interface/mixer, i'll check System Prefs ... yep, the Alesis is engaged, but the system appears to be ignoring it. then i'll restart, check Prefs again, and the Alesis has vanished from the Prefs box! usually one more restart will get things running correctly again. but this is no way to run a railroad! as an experiment the other night, i made sure the audio was functional when i closed up shop and left the machine on all night (didn't put it to sleep or shut anything down). checked it in the morning and sure enough — audio had left the building. what in the consarned cat-hair do ya reckon is going on? __________________ Truth is stranger than fact ... www.myspace.com/stragglerswing (Woody & the Stragglers - Western Swing/Roots-rock) Last edited by woodman; May 26th, 2009 at 06:45 PM.