Bluetooth audio lag

Thank you! It worked on me! Gonna wait for a period of time to see if it keeps.

BTW I reset PRAM for 4 times rather than just 2.

I went back to Mavericks also. After iOS 8 and Yosemite I'm not upgrading again until Spring.

I bet Tim Cook's Mac still works.

I can confirm: after update to the last beta version, the audio lag disappeared !
Looks like they fixed it, finally.

I signed up for the beta program and updated, and this FIXED my problem. Thanks!
(Macbook white late 2011)

MacBook Pro Early 2008, same issue with Bose Mini Soundlink and the auto start iTunes issue.

No solution worked for me.

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.

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.

I posted this last night in another forum

"I used disk utility to repair the permissions nd all that crap, restarted a few times. someone in another forum suggest resetting pram but then someone else said it didn't work either. the problem remains but i cant tell if its my cautious optimism thinking things are slightly better (after using the Utility)or..... maybe not. I'm also going easy on the system.

dont even try to play video games - enormous lag."

i havent reset the pram yet. the problem seemed ok but now its back.

i also am noticing something else. part of why i used safari is it seemed like - and I'm no computer person - google chrome built up cache in the background sooner than safari at one point, which I thought might be why it seemed faster. now I know this because I downloaded this application called "CleanApp" which tells me the amount of cache and choice to delete it. this is how i know this comparison. since yosemite the cache overall has been much larger and builds up quicker having to throw it away more often. which is strange.

i also get a sort of ghost image of the vlc viewer window after i've closed the program which disappears at about the same time as the audio delay is.

every once in awhile throughout the system the fonts will be a sort of pixelized rainbow color as well. there used to be muticolor squares in the place of icons the system had not loaded, or something, yet but that problem seems to have worked itself out. the audio still delays.

i have a late 2012 iMac etc..

I'm having the same problem with my bluetooth since upgrading to Yosemite. I have a MBP mid-2009 and a Bose Soundlink Mini. I get significant lag and a lot of skips and sputters when hitting the CPU using other programs. Its REALLY bad when using Firefox and playing iTunes in the background. Even worse when trying to stream audio from Youtube or other video over bluetooth.

I never had ANY issues under Mavericks.

And I still have that **** irritating iTunes autolaunch when disconnecting the Soundlink Mini from bluetooth.

Come on Apple, fix this buggy stuff. >: |

Yep. Encountering the same issue with audio and video playback on bluetooth audio equipment. Bug report sent.

Keep in mind, everyone, that Apple does not review these fora. It is not surprising that there has been no response to this thread from Apple.

late 2009 macbook 13"

Also seeing this issue on Yosemite. Was perfectly fine with Mavericks, Mountain Lion and Lion. On my macbook with Yosemite I've tried with a few BT speakers and all of them are having sound lag. I then connect those BT speakers to my other macbook running Lion and they are work normally without lag.

Guys, please stop posting "Same problem here".
Ok - good to know - a lot of people (maybe everybody) who has a bluetooth speaker and/or headphone has this audio lag problem.

No real solution yet, only downgrading to Mavericks (a part of buying a not apple product and trash the one you have).

Please just fulfill the form here: https://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

Let's hope Apple will solve the problem soon.

Have a good day!

No solution - but I noticed that I dont have the issue when playing from some sources.. i.e. itunes and youtube streaming via bt works fine, but from digitallyimported.com it does not. Not sure what the difference is.

Same here, my macbook pro is mid 2009 model and after updating from Mavericks to Yosemite the problem appeared with Cambridge silicon radio bluetooth audio adapter. When playing music from iTunes, sound cuts off occasionally when doing something with safari, browse files or anything that creates hard drive activity. Could it be a hard drive problem? Does anyone have it with ssd drives? I like Yosemite and it will be perfect if this problem could be fixed.

so far I have

- disabled Dashboard.

- reset my WiFi service under Network Preferences, replacing it with a new one titled WiFi2

- deleted numerous plists/startup daemons I no longer use anymore on startup, for example past deleted programs

- removed preference panels I no longer used or outdated.

- disabled cache in Safari's develop menu, as it was double the amount I seen in Mavericks

- unchecked safari's option in iCloud Drive

- reset the smc and pram numerous times

- restored and reinstalled yosemite using time machine after it crashed on startup during the process of restoration.

still have multiple problems across multiple areas in the computer including bluetooth, notifications of any kind, audio and video delay.

late 2012 imac