Sound issues using FaceTime on Mac!!

Does anyone know where the facetime prefs are located?

Home/Library/Preferences/ByHost

Home/Library/Preferences

Computer/HD/private/var/db/receipts

Home/Library/Caches

All of the FaceTime related files have FaceTime in the file name.

Wow! i just bought the facetime about 3 hours ago

and the same thing happened..i have a macbook pro and my aunt has the ipad 2 and after maybe an hour and 15 minutes she couldnt hear me anymore and i had to shut down facetime nd restart it, then it would work for several minutes then stop again

whats wrong with apple? why are they not fixing it?

I am also having the same problem. I am on a macbook and my wife has the desktop mac at home. I can hear her fine. She cannot hear me. My mike is off in the video and it is greyed out and will mot let me turn it on. Any suggestions?

I too am having the same problem on my MacBook Pro (OS 10.6.8). I call someone with an iPhone with Facetime and the sound works on the iPhone-end for a little while than cuts out. I can hear them but they cannot hear me! Had no problem with the Beta version but now BIG issue with the $0.99 download version. Looks like this problem has been around for about two months. HEY APPLE, STOP READING YOUR ACCOLADES AND GET OFF YOUR DEAD BUTTS AND FIX IT!

I've been in contact with a senior tech at Apple and I just sent a suggestion to simply release what was the beta version, as an update to the current paid version since that app had no problems.

Same problem here. My kids both got iPods for Christmas and have been chatting on Facetime. I just bought it for my MacBook Pro, and was cool for about 2 minutes, then sound cut out. Happens repeatedly. Why no Fix Apple. Seems like tons of people are having the same issue.

Ditto. Let's get on this Apple! My daughter got an iPod for x-mas to video chat with east coast grandparents.

FaceTime worked for about 2 mins and then no audio...bummer.

On the line with Apple tech support and he says that it might be the servers are having issues (maybe from holiday traffic?), but from reading this thread it seems like this has been ongoing. I do know that Apple likes to put beta products out there without really telling people. Extremely frustrating try to FT with my kid and let him see his grandparents. Had to try skype and then FT, both are having issues.

trying to use FaceTime on:

MacBook (Snow Leopard)

iPhone 4S

iMac (Snow Leopard)

No, not because of holiday traffic. This has been going on since the paid version of FT for Mac came out. The beta version worked perfectly but it expired several months ago, I think in March, 2011 when the paid version was released.

Ah yes, of course. Apple is the only company with this backwards idea of what "beta" means. "Pay us lots of money for our beta stuff!"

They've created quite a clusterf*** between FaceTime & iChat too (oh, and then there's the MobileMe/iCloud/Apple ID's confusion, but that's another story).

Sound cuts out and frequent hang ups w/ FaceTime. I'd like to video conference with FaceTime, but that can't happen (someday soon, hopefully). Tried with iChat, but can't get all three ends to get video going (for some mysterious reason). FaceTime only works with wifi on iPhone, so if you're wifi reception is poor, you're screwed.

Same issue. My husband has a Late 2010 MacBook Air and when he tries to FaceTime me with it (to my iPad 2) the sound cuts out after a few minutes. I have a MacBook Pro 17" Unibody 2009 and have the same problem trying to call my friends with iPad 2s. I have to close and restart FaceTime to get my audio back on - very frustrating.

There must be a solution, surely Apple can not let this continue.

I have an iMac and it's exactly the same. Snow Leopard, latest Facetime. Talking for 10 minutes to others on iphone, then they can't hear me. Restarting Facetime doesn't fix the problem. They disconnecting and calling me, doesn't fix the problem. I calling them doesn't fix the problem. Disabling the microphone and reenabling it doesn't fix the problem. Switching to Line In and then back to Microphone doesn't fix the problem. Turning the mic volume up and down doesn't fix the problem. The only thing that fixes it is restarting the iMac. This is a software issue that has a bug; something else on the iMac likely to be intermittantly interfering with Facetime.

This may seem like a simple idea to try, and maybe people have, but I haven't seen anyone trying to reset PRAM to see if that makes a difference? It may well make no difference, but given nothing else seems to be working, it may be worth giving it a go. It is a friend having the issue with their machine, so I haven't been able to try it myself.

Good suggestion but no, zapping the PRAM doesn't help, other than to zap the PRAM you need to restart the computer, which forces you to quit and restart FaceTime, which is the only "fix" (very temporary) for the problem.