Audio playback problems in Safari since Mavericks upgrade

Same problem here on mavericks on a late 2013 rMBP 15".

Safari 7 wouldn't start playing any song on google music.

Unticked "Stop plug-ins to save power", didn't even have to restart the browser, just refreshed google music, and it plays OK now.

That fixed it for me, than you very much

Worked for me as well . Many Thanks

Thanks lemm1ng, that did the trick.

The above tips have NOT worked for me.

The audio I am trying to hear that has stutter and what sounds like severe artifacts going on with it is on a website called numu.your-army.com and unfortunately I can't post specific links as the audio is promotional and "watermarked"

But same problem

Any other ideas?

I appreciate everyone's input, but for me, neither of the tips given here have fixed the problem. Also, Flash obviously isn't the issue here. I'm mostly having issues with the SoundCloud widget (not the actual website itself strangely) and the audio demos on Native Instruments' official website. I'm guessing these are HTML5? Maybe Javascript, I don't know.

This is not happening only in Safari.

I get the exact same stutter when playing mp3 files in Quicktimeplayer.

The stutter in Quicktimeplayer and Safari is identical.

However, if I open them in VLC everything is fine.

Worked for me! Unbelievable... Thanks lemm1ng... I would NEVER have stumbled on this myself!!!

That worked for me, JohnnyLV—thanks!

I am having the same issue. There are clicks and pops on any Flashplayer related video and audio stuff. I am using Mountain Lion and Safari or Chrome. It was after some updating i think but i don't remember when. I tried reinstalling the last downloaded Flashplayer version without any succes.

Hi. I'm experiencing the same issue but the solution that has helped many doesn't work for me either. I've just done a complete reinstall of Mavericks 10.9.2; back to the basics. Hope someone has another idea. Cheers.

switching off "stop plugins to save power" in preferences worked for me also. But I like to keep this feature on in general, because it does a good job preserving battery life on my Macbook Pro when I'm surfing. A quick search led to a more permanent solution which allows you to keep the feature on, but selectively turn it off just for the google play web page. Link below

https://grahamwalters.me/2014/02/24/how-to-fix-google-play-music-not-playing-in- safari/

I also had trouble playing music in Safari (but worked in Chrome) - I kept on getting message telling me there was some trouble with Flash and that I should reload page. So I activated HTML5 Audio in Google Play Music app, which I did by clicking Settings (cog), then Labs, and lastly selected Enabled. Don't forget to save settings. ;-)

The reason for trying HTML5 Audio was because I don't like Flash and want to keep the power saving setting for it.

I have heavy stutter when trying to listen to Soundcloud, most YouTube plays OK. I have10.9.2 on a mid 2010 Mac Pro. The solutions above did nothing here

I just rebooted to my old Snow Leopard HD (I've got Mavericks on an SSD) - anyway I was able to listen to Soundcloud fine, and watched a trailer to the J K Swopes webinar thing I'm interested in - which for some reason had the crazy stutter on Mavericks? Any ideas anyone?