Headphone Audio History

I haven't yet tried to recreate this to figure out exactly what happend. The gist of the story is this

After several days of using my MacBook Air (mid 2011) with Mac os X 10.8 (Montain Lion) I decided to plug in a pair of Apple white In-Ear headphones with mic and suddenly I am listening to a stream of boing boing boing swoosh boing boing boing .... etc. As near as I can tell it was an alert sound for every email I had received in the past several days, and a swoosh for every email I had sent. All told it probably lasted 40 seconds. Very odd indeed.

Originally I thought something was going wrong with the audio, but I really think it was all the stored up audio alerts for the past several days.

I am going to try to recate over the day and see what happens.

MacBook Air, OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Aug 3, 2012 6:40 AM

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mjn177

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Sep 25, 2013 4:46 PM in response to ediec

Same problem here on mbpr (osx1.8.5). Every time I plug in the headset, will get the boing boing swoosh swoosh boing boing. Never tried waiting it out, but unplugging-plugging-unplugging-plugging the headset some 3-6 times usually ends the "concert". The same thing happened plugging in hdmi cable. Did not wait out that either and did not want to start plugging-unplugging hdmi, but found that switching the audio output between hdmi/internal speakers from system settings several times also resolved the concert at some point..

Dec 30, 2013 7:12 AM in response to ediec

Hey there,

upgrading to Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks seems to have sorted out the problem for me.

Giovanni

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Headphone Audio History