EQ issues: Mac Mini (2018), Catalina, and/or Apple Music?

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Maloderous Author

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EQ issues: Mac Mini (2018), Catalina, and/or Apple Music?

Anyone notice that you have to manually enable your EQ settings each time there's a track change?

Experiment:

• Open Apple Music (née iTunes) and have the Equalization window open beside it

• Make the EQ curve something very drastic (thereby obvious)

• Enable EQ, wait a few seconds for it to take

• Change tracks, listen for EQ to reset to a flat position (even though window shows static slider positions and "enabled" state)

• Re-enable EQ checkbox, wait a few seconds and listen, EQ curve comes back

• Become violent

Mac mini, macOS 10.15

Posted on Nov 19, 2019 9:36 AM

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Answer 1

Maloderous Author

Level 1

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Nov 19, 2019 9:50 AM in response to Tesserax

Well that's upsetting (not that I would like this to happen to anyone).

Additional info incase something jumps out:

• HDMI-HDMI connection to TCL Television (now have to occasionally reboot w/ CMD-OPT-P-R for display to work)

• M-Audio M-Track audio interface (which works with Logic splendidly)

• Wired Apple keyboard, Bluetooth magic mouse

I may have to try this without the interface and use headphone jack to rule that out.

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Tesserax

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Nov 19, 2019 10:18 AM in response to Maloderous

When I tried this out, I was using the Music app on my 2018 mini (also running macOS Catalina) to a Logitech 5.1 speaker system via the analog output port on the mini ... so we are definitely not doing an "apples-to-apples" comparison here. I just tried your steps again, this time using AirPlay from the Music app to my 4th gen Apple TV. Again, I couldn't duplicate the issue. Sorry, that I couldn't help out with the problem you're having.

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Answer 3

Nov 26, 2019 3:15 PM in response to Maloderous

I'm having the exact same issue on a 2016 Touch Bar MacBook Pro and an older MacBook Air. It happens if playing on local speakers, via headphone jack, or Airplaying to remote speakers. I have to disable and re-enable EQ after each track starts to get it to process at all.

It's very irritating. I listen to music a lot in the background while I work so I like to EQ out the vocal ranges so the music fills the space, but doesn't distract me.

I submitted a bug report so hopefully it'll be fixed soon. I recommend you the same if you haven't already Maloderous. Get the word out! We. Need. E. Q!

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Answer 4

Dec 11, 2019 6:01 AM in response to Maloderous

I installed the latest update and it fixed it! Hope it works for all of you, too!

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Answer 5

Tesserax

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Nov 19, 2019 9:40 AM in response to Maloderous

FWIW ... I tried your steps that you provided multiple times, but could not duplicate the issue you are seeing.

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EQ issues: Mac Mini (2018), Catalina, and/or Apple Music?

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