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Just updated (17th.Oct.2014) to OS X Yosemite. Im having trouble with bluetooth connection. There is an audio lag on my bluetooth headphone which progressively gets worse. Im using Sony DR-BTN 200. Is there a temporary solution until they fix it?
P.S. I found others with similar issues as well. Ive tried re-pairing the connection to no avail. Any help would be appreciated.
MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10)
Same here with a mid-June 2017 13" Pro running the latest Sierra upgrade 10.12.5
Issued started today, after one week using the laptop. Either the earplugs and the mouse acting weird, interfering with the wifi also. Couldn't connect to any wifi until I turned off and on the Bluetooth. The mouse was already acting weird. After some hours the bluetooth audio started failing, lagging...
While I've experienced the lag issue with a variety of bluetooth devices, it normally has to due with applications using a ton of resources.
Once I killed apps like IntelliJ IDEA, Sketch and other developer tools, everything sync'd fine.
here's the solution to this issue:
Open terminal.
type: sudo killall coreaudiod
password: (enter your pass)
close terminal, both issues are now fixed
(until next time when they inevitably occur again and you'll need to repeat these steps)
Same here, with a Sony HT-CT260. Seemed to work alright with a local video file, but audio lags (and gets progressively worse) with Flash videos.
Retina MBP (Late 2013), OSX Yosemite (10.10)
Never tried with local video file, but its impossible to use flash videos now. The audio goes on for few seconds after ive closed the video.Hopefully they'll fix it fast.
Same problem. MacBook Pro mid 2009 and Creative D200 bluetooth speakers. Audio lags with any of audio sources when you do something while music is playing. For example browsing in Safari. When I want to watch a movie I have to reconnect speakers because audio goes on for a few seconds after. Everything worked excellent on Mavericks. Hope Apple will fix it soon because it's very annoying problem.
@ Sashanoir, It is very annoying. Ive stopped using bluetooth headphones. Hopefully someone from Apple is reading this and working on a solution.
Im wondering if there might be other apps that are clashing with it. I have boom (mac volume boosted) do you have it as well? Btw mine is also MB pro mid 2009.
No I just listen to iTunes without any additional apps. Local movies have same problem. All audio stream from Mac is lagged and delayed. I noticed it starts to lag when you do something on your Mac when audio is playing. Pressing play/pause several times or reconnection helps but not for long. That's problem of Yosemite. And I think it's because we have bluetooth 2.0. Seems like developers were focused on great work for continuity and hand-off on Macs with bluetooth 4 and forgot about owners of old Macs. I hope they will fix it in a new update but I'm sure It will take time for release.
I think you're onto something with regards to bluetooth 2.0. Hope they release an update soon.
I got a iMac late 2012 using beats headphones and i got lag. think this comp has bluetooth 4.0.
guess its the same problem tho as my regular headphones seem to work ok so far playing iTunes VLC and youtube video as well as throwing away trash. the bluetooth seemed to somehow be slowing down the whole system? is that possible? i play to run the disk doctor as well. keep me updated thanks
Thanks for your feedback @readytorun. If more people came forward with the issue they might fix it soon.
Same problem for me with a macbook pro mid 2009, everything used to work fine on mavericks. When i start listening to music through a bose mini soundlink, the situation is ok for a moment then it gets worse while browsing on the internet and when i click pause or next/previous on the keyboard or on spotify/iTunes after some time, the sound stops after 3/4 seconds... and every notification sound is also delayed so it's not a software specific problem with spotify/iTunes. I'm glad to see i am not the only one affected by this problem.
Same problem for me too. I also think is due to the Bluetooth 2.0. Spotify, iTunes, VLC, YouTube, all of them are lagging when using the Bluetooth speakers, in my case Bose Soundlink.
Really annoying.
I have the same problem. MacBook Pro Mid 2009 + Bose Soundlink Speaker. SO ANNOYING! I thought Apple loves music! That constant lagging and stuttering makes me consider to go back to Mavericks 😟
not wanting you to create a problem for yourself, but if you open the Sound Prefs - do you get an endless beach ball ????
Warning, I have to Force Quit the System Prefs when this happens
trying to connect my BT headphones causes many issues
Bluetooth audio lag
