Q: Audio output in 10.8 on an older Mac Mini
Hi,
this is more out of curiosity, although I'd like to change something in my set-up, if possible
I used a Mac Mini from 2007 with OS X 10.6 for listening to music, which worked fine. I didn't do anything else with it, it sat on a shelf and quietly filled my flat with music. The music was stored on the internal hard drive and I used JRiver's MediaCenter. The Mac ran headless, I used an app on my iPad to control listening to the music. I also could use an older physical remote control from Apple. The music went out through the digital output of the Mac Mini and directly into a pair of active loud speakers.
Two days ago I upgraded the hardware and now have a Mac Mini from 2010, the last model with an optical drive. It also has the infrared sensor and the optical S/PDIF outlet. So my set-up basically kept being the same as before. I took the hard drive out of the 2007 model and put it into the 2010 model and upgraded the OS X to 10.8.5.
The change worked well and the Mac is delivering the music as before with one difference: When I start playing music after a (re)start of the Mac or after it wasn't playing music for a while, it needs 11 to 12 seconds before the first sound comes out of my speakers. I don't think, it's a real problem, as the system runs very well after that 12 seconds, but if there is something I can change in the settings, I'd love to do that. I already looked at the audio-MIDI-setup but don't understand the settings there. Most of the settings can't be changed anyway, I guess because the audio signal is only forwarded from the player to the outlet, which would make sense.
If it has something to do with system OS X 10.8 I might as well go back to OS X 10.6 (which was the system the Mac Mini was shipped with). I don't do anything else but playing music files from the system hard drive, so that would be fine for me. But it migt as well has something to do with the hardware.
Thanks for reading and thinking!
Any hints, explanations and help are very much appreciated!
Posted on Aug 13, 2016 2:18 AM