Apple tvOS 17 No Sound

I have an Apple TV 4K (3rd generation) connected to a Samsung TV that pushes audio out through a Sonos sound system. It was working fine earlier today. I upgraded the tv OS to v17.0. Now, several apps (e.g., Netflix, Disney+, Apple TV, etc.) do not provide any audio while the YouTube TV and YouTube apps functions normally. I have 1) rebooted and 2) changed the audio format to a different setting. Any suggestions?

Apple TV 4K (3rd generation)

Posted on Sep 20, 2023 5:47 PM

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Posted on Oct 22, 2023 9:18 AM

jees, I just came upon this thread. just posted a similar problem.


I've isolated it to dolby 5.1 and tvOS 17. just started having this problem so I suspect 17 broke something.


forcing everything to stereo audio format seems to be a workaround. after switching back to 5.1 it seems to work..... for a while... then it fails again.


dolby 5.1 will just go silent after a while. if I leave it in stereo format I have no problems. so that may explain why some sources work since not all are doing 5.1 or atmos.


affects all streams (music, tv+, Hulu, ...) that output 5.1 audio


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Jan 19, 2024 8:20 AM in response to aneff3

I’m having an issue with Apple airplay. Tried all the rebooting tips, nothing works. What’s strange is that my YouTube and Spectrum apps work fine. Audio and video both work. Any other apps, including Apple Music provide video only, no audio. Spent a few useless hours with Apple support, even being bumped up to a specialist. Again, they just give out the same suggestions of rebooting and checking audio settings. None of those work. It’s been several weeks now that this has been happening. It’s definitely a problem on Apples end, but they won’t acknowledge that nor do they seem interested in fixing this problem. Very frustrating. By the way, this is occurring on ALL my Apple devices. 9th generation IPad, 7th generation Itouch and MacBook. All three respond in similar fashion when using airplay.

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