I cannot hear the music when playing on iTunes. When I restart my computer there is the restart tune that comes on, so I don't think the problem is the speakers. Has anyone had this happen on their iMac and figured out the problem & repaired the problem?
iMac (24-inch Early 2009), OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)
Open system preferences from the utility folder and click on sounds. Make sure your internal speakers are selected for output.
Nothing happened. The iTunes bar show the item playing, but no sound is coming out of the speakers.
Open terminal in the utilities folder (under applications). At the prompt type this
say "testing speakers" (hit return)
Do you hear anything?
Can you tell me how to get to application to find the utilities folder to perform the speakers test?
the easiest way is to use spotlight
click the "looking glass" icon and type terminal in the search window, then click the app showing under "top hit"
I assume you tried my earlier post by selecting internal speakers for Mac sounds
Sorry, I had to reboot the computer. I did try, but nothing happened. I also went into the spy glass, typed in terminal, clicked the app showing under "top hit" which happens to be "terminals" and got a funny message: "Last login: Sun Feb 2 12:48:57 on ttys000. You have mail....".
If your speakers are selected and the volume is not turned down all the way, then...
I would do a SMC reset. Basically for a desktop mac you shutdown, unplug it, wait 15s, plug it back in, wait 5s, then restart your mac.
if that doesn't work then
Restart the mac and hold the alt-command-P-R keys at the chime. Keep holding them until you hear the chime for a second time. This should set programmable settings to their default state.
if that doesn't work then
You may need to boot into recovery, check your HD for errors or maybe even reinstall the OS. Sorry I could not be of more help.
Thanks ssls6 for helping earlier.
We solved the problem of the sound not coming out when playing in iTunes: I went into iTunes and checked on the volume inside of iTunes, near the top of the window, located in the upper left of the iTunes window, near the player controls. There is a rectangular box with a triangle on the bottom. The speakers chosen was my Apple TV; Somehow, these settings were changed from Computer to Apple TV. A simple clicked fixed the problem.
Excellent news.
I love it when a problem gets solved 🙂 and you figured it out for yourself 🙂
Not by myself. The credit goes to my spouse who called Apple Support Live Chat. I only started working on a solution, it took you and others to look into the our questions. Thanks, again.
I cannot hear the music when playing on iTunes. When I restart my computer there is the restart tune that comes on, so I don't think the problem is the speakers.
