Q: 2013 Macbook Air Sound Playback Issues

When I am listening to music through itunes it will often jar and stick, like it would if you were listening to a CD that has a scratch on it and it goes jumpy for a few seconds and then carries on as normal. This happens every day or so and it is getting a bit annoying. Any tips on how to fix this? Thanks!

MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)

Posted on Jan 7, 2015 8:12 AM

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brenden dv Jan 8, 2015 9:16 AM in response to charlottem1493
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Jan 8, 2015 9:16 AM in response to charlottem1493

Hi charlottem1493,

I'm sorry to hear you are having playback issues in iTunes on your Mac. If you are playing locally stored music (i.e. not streamed) and you are having intermittent but persistent transient audio distortion issues (cutting in and out, jumpy, etc), you may want to see if it is related to a system resource issue. You can try keeping Activity Monitor open and see if the audio "glitches" correspond to any unusually high Memory or CPU usage. You may find the following article helpful:

How to use Activity Monitor - Apple Support

Regards,
- Brenden
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charlottem1493 Jan 8, 2015 9:39 AM in response to brenden dv
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Jan 8, 2015 9:39 AM in response to brenden dv

Okay that's great, thanks for getting back to me! I'll give that a go
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