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Does anyone facing cracking sound or any kind of inference after connecting you MBP to any of bluetooth headphones?
After connected when i play a new song in youtube it starts with huge crack/disturbance kind of noise and it continuous..
I thought my bluetooth device has some issues, but it works normally on other devices.
I tried reset my bluetooth driver and restart my system, still facing the same issues.
you can solve it by download the latest version of Additional Tools for XCode and go to tools --> audio option and disable both force to aac and disable aptx.
Then disconnect and coonect the Sony bluetooth device. It works for me. Hope you get it.
Simply it will enable the Other supportable codec formats.
Exactly the same issue with Sony WI-C300. The Catalina update is a disaster: issues with bluetooth and sound, bugs in Finder and Preview. This is absolutely unprofessional for one of the most expensive laptops out there. I am seriously considering moving back to Thinkpad and Linux.
I have the exact same issue with my Sony WH-CH500 headphones. It also started when I upgraded my 2017 Macbook Air to Catalina. It's very frustrating, I have to connect these bluetooth headphones to my iPhone while I'm studying.
Here as well. As same problem as you described. Before Catalina it worked normally, since update to Catalina it started with cracking sound.
Some apps are having long response, and that the headphones would be disconnected. Unable to use them with google meet (within chrome browser) and slack (app).
Thanks in advance for fixing it.
I receive all notifications of this thread as i had the same issue. Follow the fix of jedkub and you will get rid of the cracking. I know this is something that Apple needs to fix, but as a daily user > 8hours, i needed to get this fixed asap. So if you really want to have a pre-fix, follow the steps listed above
This issue has not been solved. Since I use bluetooth headphones all the time, I've had to reinstall Mojave on another partition and I currently only use my Catalina partition to play around with SwiftUI.
The problem is that prior to Catalina, bluetooth connections on macOS were defaulting to the SBC codec. Catalina now defaults to the AAC codec if it's available, but as is evident in this thread, that is causing problems for a lot of people, for whatever reason that may be. Disabling AAC just reverts to the pre Catalina default SBC codec. Call it what you will, but switching back to the SBC codec solves the problem.
I can almost agree that it will not be a macOS issue, but a Sony problem. I have a soundbar which is doing the same as you all describe. When I use it via bluetooth I have the crack sound every time Apple Music gives me a new song. But I don't have this with my B&O headset or with my AirPods. And on the site of Sony you don't find any firmware updates. It is true, it's something that started 2 or 3 years ago. Before I didn't had the issue.
I am facing the same issue with my rha trueconnect wireless earphones. Sharp cracking sound at the beginning and end of youtube videos and also the same kind of cracking noise on system sounds relayed into the bluetooth earphones. It's really annoying, please fix this on priority.
Not to mention, my earphones keep disconnecting when using zoom.us on this macbook. I have another one (Macbook air old version) that doesn't have catalina installed and everything works fine.
I followed this one
but instead of enable ACC and aptX, i marked disable AAC and aptX and so far its working on Sony Wh-CH500, here is what i did.
Open the link and download the "Additional Tools for Xcode" from the step 1 marked there and follow the instructions.
Once downloaded, dismount and copy bluetooth explorer to the application folder on your computer.
With your headphones playing, open it and go to "Tools" and then to "audio options"
Tick on "disable AAC" and "Disable aptX" and then close.
Disconnect and connect again your headphones.
It worked for me, hopefully will work for u.
cheers
Thank you @callmerocky9,
it works for me too !!
People are talking about issue with sony headset but I had the same problem with my plantronics headset, now it works perfectly. If you take the additional tools for Xcode, take the one of February 19, 2020.
Solved what? Why there is a 'solved' answer? cmon!
Apple engineers do not visit these forums. We're all end users like yourself. Tell Apple via Feedback - macOS - Apple what the problem is. That's the only way they'll find out about the problem.
I have this problem as well = it happens in-between tracks but thankfully does not happen during the song or movie. I hope that Apple fix the bug soon
Same here, Sony WH-CH500.
This update is making us go crazy.
Ahahah so they introduce a problem and so we should update our headphones (no updates exist).
WTF Is this logic
Cracking sound on bluetooth headphone connected to Catlina os 10.15
