Bluetooth audio lag

Just saying, I updated to 10.10.2 through the beta program weeks ago and the issue has been fixed since then. Permanently.

I have just updated to the official 10.10.2 and tested playing a mp4 video through QuickTime Player and there was also no lag.

Hello,

i am using a late 2013 MBPr using a Klipsch GiG and experiencing the same audio lag issue. No problems with Mavericks. When i disconnect the BT speaker and reconnect the problem goes away for about 10mins and the lag comes back.

Same issue here.

I have a Mid 2012 Macbook Pro and have issues with audio with both Bose Soundlink and the Jawbone Jambox.

Everything was fine on Mavericks so it has to be a Yosemite issue.

Come on Apple, get this one sorted.

If you need any other info from me I'd be only too happy to supply it.

I'm also having the same problem with my bluetooth Sennheiser headphones on both my mid 2011 iMac and mid 2011 MacBook Air. Whenever I use Spotify or watch a video, the sound is delayed and extremely choppy. I've had no problems with Mavericks so the only thing I can conclude that is causing this is Yosemite. I really hope this is fix in an update or something soon. It's too annoying to just tolerant.

Having same issue. Macbook Pro mid 2010. After updating to Yosemite, whenever i play videos with audio over bluetooth the audio is delayed after a couple of minuts and the delay increases the longer it plays. If I pause the video, sound keeps playing until i catches up with the imaging. The problem is not consist, but it occurs very often, like 4 out of 5 times.

Hi.

I have the same blutooth-sound-lag&stutter - issues after upgrading to Yosemite a few weeks ago.

Mid2009 and a Harman Kardon Onyx Studio speaker.

It is especially noticeable while I do fileoperations in finder - I try to delete every second or third file in a folder, using the arrowkeys to navigate, and my sound stutters terribly. Else there´s “just” a 2-10 second delay.

Still; kind regards and warm thanks for all the quality work that up through the years must have gone into making Apple´s hardware and software. My Macbook Pro is more than 5 years old now and I´ve never used any mechanical or technical equpment this much for so long with so few problems! :-)

A quality-standard public administration of any society could learn from!

But in my mind I can see Steve Jobs turning in his grave on this one - it breaks exactly what he wanted to create, a bicycle for the mind. Now it feels like I have to drag a wreck behind me while walking, exactly the same feeling Microsoft Windows gave me for 20 years in a row. There I had to be an engineer fixing the bicycle until it broke again. I made a good but harmfully stressful living doing that. So I switched to Apple…

Do you remember what product Steve made in order to save Apple? The iPod musicplayer. And now this happens to music playback.. My DJ friends is NOT upgrading, that´s their clear verdict.

Apple; you´ve grown to be the biggest company ever, and deserved it; how on earth were you able to this quickly mess up what you inherited from Steve?

Did you fire some core engineers to save money? Were the new icons that demanding and important? Did the US government force you to implement CPU&databus-consuming minute detailed logging&surveilance services?

In general; what the $#%&$%& is suddenly stealing all the recources the hardware actually delivers?

Also; (just like in windooze) now I have to download&install Adobe flash manually, as if I ever cared for that company.. :-(

Will I need drivers for my soundcard next?

People; I reccomend not upgrading to Yosemite if you can avoid it - I have all kinds of “lag&stutter” behaviour elsewhere too, switching between programs, surfing the net, quitting programs, starting programs, getting all kinds of unneccesary dialogs boxes, spinning wheel, short hangs etc. etc. Shure; spotlight is in the middle of the screen and quite responsive, but most everything else is less responsve and more intrusive.

Apple might not care about these forums, but they repeatedly boast how many of their customers have upgraded to the latest version of their OS´s, if it drops they might notice.

Best wishes.

atle

I also faced the same issue on Macbook white 2010 model after upgrading to Yosemite with my Bose Soundlink 3 and downgraded back to Mavericks and all is good now. Not upgrading until this is fixed. There are several separate threads for the same bluetooth connectivity issue going on in this forum.

OK, I might be jumping the gun, and I don't know what the technical fouls are, but when I have Yosemite installed , for whatever reason, it does not work with my system, even a complete clean system with nothing on it (like possible conflicting 3rd party apps).

I did an internet Recovery, went back to Mountain Lion and upgraded to Mavericks. While my "kernel task" memory remains high, as it should, the CPU percentages which were showing at 300% with the same "kernel task" in Yosemite was ridiculous and left me with a system where I couldn't open even 2 applications. and forget Bluetooth.

So far, after a day of pushing this system (Mavericks) to the limit of what Yosemite, for some reason, just couldn't pull off: VLC movie playing from an external drive source, while downloading a file, playing a 1st person shooter network video game, emptying the trash, listening to iTunes and all on bluetooth...

- and things work fine.

normal cpu percentages, mail works, bluetooth is probemless - the OS just feels solid.

so even if theres still some hat trick I didn't try over the past month with Yosemite - and it does look nice and clean.. right now Mavericks is solid.

It just works.

It's only for developers now. But I couldn't wait for apple seed release and downloaded dev beta from torrent. Bluetooth problem is finally gone! It's so great when everything works fine! So wait for official update with fix or install dev beta on your own risk. It might have other problems. For example lots of people say that Chrome isn't working. I use Safari so it's ok for me.

Hope next time Apple will work better on their updates. I hadn't so much problems with my Apple products in past 5 years like last three months. Don't became Microsoft stay Apple!

Just want to add to the discussion.

I've also experienced problems with BT audio since I upgraded to Yosemite (10.10). Sometimes it seems as if audio is 'repeated' partly, which means that get something like thi-this, and i-it's REALLY annoying! I'm not sure if there is a an actual lag in the audio.

Initially I thought it might be related to my audio device (Jawbone Jambox), but now I'm also experiencing the same problems with a BT headphone (Philips SHB4000). It's also not really related to specific Mac hardware, as I'm experiencing the problems with both my macBook Air (13" Mid 2013) and an older iMac (21" Spring 2010).

The upgrade to Yosemite 10.10.1 didn't bring any improvements, and now I'm hoping that the 1010.2 update will solve this issue.

Finally, a more technical remark on the issue: So currently I'm experiencing this 'doubling' (don't know how to call it otherwise) of short parts of audio, but I don't experience a real lag. Also not something like an increase in lag after some time. This brings me to believe that there's a problem with the communication stack itself in the way that audio packets may be lost, and then retransmitted, and re-amplified; or something like that.

It can't be that the macBook's transfer rate has increased, so it is (a little bit) higher than the audio device's receiving rate? Maybe stupid thought, but might be worthwhile to check...

I noticed this issue back in October and assumed that it would be worked out with one of the dot releases. After a few frustrating months, I finally called Apple and told them that my Creative BT headphones are basically unusable for video (which is the only thing I use them for). I spoke to a second-tier tech, who had me submit diagnostic logs that he sent to Apple engineers. They determined the problem is with my headphones, which are "not compatible with Yosemite". It takes a lot of nerve to release an OS update that breaks many mainstream—and expensive—peripherals (Bang and Olufsen, Harman Kardon, Sony, Logitech, Creative), and to then turn around and blame the other companies who've done nothing wrong at all.

The Apple tech actually suggested to me that his Beats headphones work fine with Yosemite. Perhaps the reason Apple isn't rushing to fix this problem is that they want you to "upgrade" your headphones.

if you look at what update 10.10.2 is supposed to do...it fixes some things, it resolves other things...but only improves the bluetooth problem...does not fix or resolve :-(

This update includes the following improvements:

• Resolves an issue that might cause Wi-Fi to disconnect
• Resolves an issue that might cause web pages to load slowly
• Fixes an issue that could cause Spotlight to load remote email content when this preference is disabled in Mail
• Improves audio and video sync when using Bluetooth headphones
• Adds the ability to browse iCloud Drive in Time Machine
• Improves VoiceOver speech performance
• Resolves an issue that could cause VoiceOver to echo characters when entering text on a web page
• Addresses an issue that could cause the input method to switch languages unexpectedly
• Improves stability and security in Safari

Mid 2013 Macbook Air - stuttering and lag.

Def. a yosemite thing. That and the WindowServer process going nuts and slowing the system to a halt are ruining the upgrade experience pretty bad..