Apple Music on Mac OS since Monterey 12.2

Music and/or Air Play in Mac OS has not worked correctly since Monterey 12.2. The problem is playing anything in any mode intermittently "plays" a selection(s) without sound (progress bar shows selection is playing but there is no sound). Then, plays normally until it does it again. Tried subscribing to Apple Music and the problem was worse. Once again, in any mode it would start playing a selection briefly - stop -then re-selects another selection - and either plays the entire selection or do it again or stop playing completely. I unsubscribed and it returned to the intermittent "phantom play" (playing without sound). Since March 2022, I have worked with 3 different senior advisors and spent literally hours documenting the problems for the software engineers with absolutely no results. Does anyone have any suggestions? H-E-L-P!