Bluetooth audio problems Catalina

A further reply to my reply:

Sound BlasterX Katana official web page states:

Supported Codecs

SBC, AAC

https://us.creative.com/p/speakers/sound-blasterx-katana

Conclusion:

Apple's AAC codec has something wrong with it. Workaround is to force it off and use SBC.

SBC *must* be supported by all audio devices because it is defined in the bluetooth standard.

** I solved this problem perfectly !! **

I suffered the same problem with my macbook pro 2018.

I updated OS version from 15.10.1 to 15.10.3, but it still had problem.

I asked about this to support team, and they said to create new user for desktop.

So, I created a new login user (not apple online account),

and the problem disappeared.

This problem was very annoying and uncomfortable,

so I hope the people who have the same problem would solve this problem with this solution.

After much searching online and trying to reset the bluetooth module several times and ignoring Apple support that suggested re-installing the operating system, the following simple command fixed my issue:

From terminal:

sudo killall -9 bluetoothaudiod coreaudiod

Who knew. No issues at all after that point.

Had same issue after new Catalina install. Very annoying.

Might be too soon to tell but been using bluetooth for over an hour and no disconnects.

Software upgrade to: 10.15.1

Hey, had the same issue. Tried a PRAM reset along with deleting the "com.apple.Bluetooth.plist" file and it seems to fix the problem.

10.15.4 beta 3 fix it. Two days of testing are successful!

Hey,

I had the same issue but after updating my macbook to macOS Catalina 10.15.4 it seems that they resolved this problem. Since then I have not experienced any issue with my bluetooth devices.

Every self help article tells you to reset PRAM/NVRAM and delete the bluetooth plist. This doesn't work even after 10.15.2. Here's what I observed so far: Bluetooth audio will randomly drop, remain connected to the computer but the audio device will be set to the internal speakers and cannot be changed to the bluetooth audio without disconnecting and reconnecting from the device.

Uptime of a bluetooth audio device is anywhere from instantly failing to a half a day. normally it seems to be about 20 minutes or so. After a while audio will stutter on bluetooth which so far i only seem to be able to remedy by rebooting the machine. next time I may try killing the coreaudiod and bluetoothaudiod though.

Audio forgets its volume after every disconnection, usually being set to max volume. Sometimes, bizarrely, it will be set as low as possible while still having some output. Even more bizarre is that if the system update screen is open it will flash that it failed to update at the same time.

System log at time of error is "com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.bluetoothaudiod): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 1 seconds." repeated ad nauseum. coreaudiod also has an error "unable to write all data".

Running a 2014 Macbook Air 6,2. OS Version 10.15.2, but started since 10.15.0.

jmattdb not the *********, but under some load (I have 8 GB memory), for example 3 Chrome windows with 20 tabs each, Slack, Skype, VSCode and during a call in Skype with ScreenSharing, memory can go out of green state and immediately BT sound disconnects. I think OS just unloads BT sound module because it's sitting somewhere in the cache or something like that. Btw, when memory pressure go out from green (there are some levels), it doesn't mean that machine will be very slow yet.

During about last 3 months I had it like 20+ times and after like 10th I started to notice that memory is related to that and it happens everytime. After that I moved some apps out from my macbook to remote Mac and now connecting remotely there, but anyway sometimes I overload memory even now.

That was my fix. There were 2 issues with Catalina that bothered me, one was this BlueTooth bug, the other was that some older software that runs fine on Mojave don't work on Catalina. Moving back to Mojave solved both problems for me. I won't be trying Catalina again anytime soon.

d_fuser, I found that in settings for bluetooth they still have EnablePressuredExit set to True (allows to kill bluetooth audio when memory is under pressure). So setting is still there and might be your system under much bigger pressure and kernel kills it anyway. However I tried to take all possible memory and didn't get that problem anymore. Or maybe you have something else. Can you open Console.app application and search for string "bluetooth" right after loosing sound. Maybe we understand what happens for you.

I had the same issue, thought it was the music app - using the Music app, still stutter on the bluetooth headset. I disconnected the Magic Mouse II - and problem gone! Seems it's the bluetooth of the mouse. Back to using only magic keyboard and touchpad

I talked to someone at Apple Support and solved my problem by

1. Detaching all devices from Bluetooth
2. Doing a factory reset on my speaker

I have a MacBook Air (2012), Mac OS 10.15.5, a BOSE SoundLink Mini II.

Only what I had mentioned earlier, and this still works for me, I found that the more bluetooth devices I had the more audio issues I faced, so disconnecting my Apple bluetooth trackpad (1st gen) and only having my Apple wireless keyboard, Apple wireless mouse and my BOSE QC 35 II connected via Bluetooth resolved my audio issues, re-connecting the Apple trackpad then causes audio drop outs.

This affects all bluetooth headphones for me, including AirPods Pro. I was on the phone with Apple helpdesk for a total of 6 hours where they pulled 2GB worth of log files from my computer for the engineers to investigate, and they simply told me that after reading through everything, it's a known issue and there's nothing they can do. They hope an OS update in the future will help, but they have basically thrown up their hands for the thousands of us that can't use bluetooth headphones with our macOS devices.