Music Stuttering

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Music Stuttering

My newly set up MacBook Pro 14" (base model) stutters when playing music, basically music plays but lags about 3-5 times per song. It happens at ALL times, on wifi streaming, on local/downloaded file playback, while using the device, while not using the device, through speakers, bluetooth, via aux and with headphones... I have tried many things to fix the issue but so far nothing has worked.

I tried quitting applications and turning off and on (a few times now), there is not an update available to me right now either. I looked up a PRAM reset that can help this issue on intel Macs but don't believe it works the same on apple silicon.

Any ideas on what I can do next?

MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 12.0

Posted on Dec 7, 2021 10:46 AM

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Luis Sequeira1

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Dec 8, 2021 1:26 PM in response to D_Rogers

Migration is great and extremely useful.

But when you do it year after year since, say, Mountain Lion, things are bound to break at some point.

I have migrated across several system versions too. In the old days, installing everything was indeed something to be dreaded, as I know only too well. Now, not really. For every OS upgrade (like recently Big Sur to Monterey), I make telwo backups, make an installer disk on a thumb drive, erase, install and ghen migrate only the user accounts. This gives me an unblemished system. I then install my applications from the App Store or tge developers sites and I am back in business and don’t have any weird issues due to old extensions and such. And I of course get the greatest benefit from the migration: all much documents, pictures, mail, music etc are exactly as they were before.

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Dec 8, 2021 6:51 AM in response to D_Rogers

There is a lot of old stuff in there. From a quick look at the report I can see that you have “memoryclean”. You should not use any program like in any version since 10.9 Mavericks. This works against the way the OS uses memory, seriously impacts performance and can cause crashes. There are probably other things that you should uninstall but this stood out. In the end you probably should have a full backup, then erase and install, and migrate ONLY the user accounts. Then you will be able to fully enjoy your great new mac.

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Dec 7, 2021 11:11 AM in response to D_Rogers

Please run Etrecheck and post its full report here. Use the "additional text" button and paste the report into the text box.

Did you migrate everything from a previous mac? You may have brought some old stuff that is causing problems in Monterey.

Hopefully the report may help us figure out what it might be.

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D_Rogers Author

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Dec 8, 2021 6:45 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

Hi Luis, here is the report - yes I did happen to migrate my data from older MacBook Pro (was also on latest update). Also wanted to add... in report it shows amazon music with very high cpu% usage, on running another test this disappeared from major issues.

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D_Rogers Author

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Dec 8, 2021 7:36 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

Ok so I've deleted that application - I haven't used it for years and not opened or used since setting up this Mac. As far as having a lot of old stuff in there? I'm not so sure... I have just been through the applications from Mac app store and the rest are compatible and I deleted most third party apps before migrating.

So, your suggestion is to backup, erase, and reinstall? with all due respect... I'm well aware of that fixing most issues computer related but I am looking for other options/opinions to avoid having to do that dreaded, monumental task.

One question: Why would migration be part of apple's setup on a Mac if it is so flawed and at risk of negatively impacting your system?

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