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)
The storage of the Bluetooth audio values have been changed in Mavericks / Yosemite the defaults are now with a process called “Bluetoothaudiod”, you can change the defaults by using the following example:
Sudo defaults write bluetoothaudiod "Apple Bitpool Min" 50
Please see below all the parameters I have changed, to read the defaults please enter the following command in terminal:
sudo defaults read bluetoothaudiod
enter your password:
MacBook-Pro:~ Ciaran$ sudo defaults read bluetoothaudiod
{
"AAC Bitrate" = 320;
"AAC CBR" = 1;
"Apple Bitpool Max" = 64;
"Apple Bitpool Min" = 50;
"Apple Initial Bitpool" = 50;
"Disable AAC codec" = 0;
"Disable AptX codec" = 0;
"Disable HFP" = 0;
"Enable AptX codec" = 1;
These setting work well with my Bose Soundink OE headphones, please be careful entering the values as they are case sensitive, I really hope this helps some of you out there.
Cheers.
same as all the other posts. Audio lag on bluetooth on both Macbook pro mid 2012 and an airbook after Yoshemite upgrade
Same problem with a macbook pro 2009 and Neoxo receiver.
The problem is temporarily reduced when selecting Sonor Effect in the panel control, but it came back very quickly.
Same issue mid 2011 Macbook pro bose soundlink mini lag in audio also lag in chrome and safari with streaming sound lag 4 seconds or so. And mavericks was working well.
another thread here claims that a clean install of Yosemite solves the problem, but i'm sceptical.
Probably better spend the time rolling back to mavericks.
So far so good, 10.10.2 pre release worked for me on a late 2009 iMac (11.1)
Despite it is less frequent, the bug is still present in 10.10.2 =(
Yes, it came back. Will see if PRAM reset again fixes.
Finally, the official 10.10.2 fixed it.
After a few days of no problems at all, the issue came back... I have no more words to say, this is a nightmare. I've buyed a five meters cable, goodbye bluetooth. I'm sick of all this.
@ 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.
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
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.
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
this Mini is my secondary machine, so I will be using the functional ext speakers until this is resolved/ I will not be upgrading the iMac any time soon I guess. And given the way iOS 8 went, I won't be jumping on 8.1 this Monday ............
Same issue here. I have an early 2011. Connect to my Vizio sounder via bluetooth and it lags when playing iTunes. I upgraded my Macbook Pro with more ram and a faster HDD and was happy because I thought it would last awhile, needless to say it's feeling pretty obsolete right now...
Bluetooth audio lag
