I have a 21.5" late 2012 iMac that I just upgraded to El Capitan (OS X 10.11). Now all of my music from iTunes or Radium sounds choppy on my Bose Soundlink Mobile Speaker II. It worked fine on Yosemite. Anyone having a similar issue with any Bluetooth speakers?
iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2012), OS X El Capitan (10.11)
I am have the same problem with El Capitan I am using JBL Charge 2 Portable Bluetooth Speaker works fine when use iphone 6 to play music.
But on my MacBook its a no go very irritating I use the same set up for my online classes and get the same results. I connected the speakers to my ipad no problem and friends pc no problem. "a is pnt m eady to rouh ut indow" lol thats what Im dealing with trying to use for school. "What th **** pple"
Guess I will be going back to Yosemite. Xcode has turned to **** freezing and shutting down unexpectedly also.
MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012) Processor Speed: 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 Memory: 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR
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I deleted prefs, re-paired, and seems to solve the issue. Still testing, haven't paired up several devices yet.
In case you want to listen to music RIGHT NOW and attend to malfunctions later 😀
Steps:
This is still an issue for me.. :/
The only thing that works for me is to turn the keyboard off then back on. Works fine until a few hours later after the iMac has gone to sleep.
Apple yesterday updated by bugreport, so there is a chance that this will be fixed...
"Engineering has determined that your bug report (23053202) is a duplicate of another issue (23713018) and will be closed."
That would be amazing...i'm fed up with it already.
Bluetooth connection with speakers, airport express connected to hifi - all the same choppiness since El Capitan latest update. I hope this will be resolved soon...
May the force be with us :-)
Same problem here on El capitan 10.11.2. I have no other bluetooth device so the problem for me is not that. Any help?
Yes, i have solution! I have marshall stanmore bt80w bluetooth named STANDMORE Speaker.
I run this command on terminal!
defaults write com.apple.BluetoothAudioAgent "STANDMORE Speaker" 80
defaults write com.apple.BluetoothAudioAgent "STANDMORE Speaker Max" 80
defaults write com.apple.BluetoothAudioAgent "STANDMORE Speaker Min" 80
and than I delete all settings from Bluetooth in System Preferences.
Rename STANDMORE Speaker to yours audio device name!
FWIW, I have had the same problem since before El Capitan. I have bluetooth keyboard and trackpad plus Bose SoundLink headset. My iPhone is also paired with the headset. it happens to me intermittently, but if I reboot things work. Hoping for an update...
Latest osx update made it worse. A lot worse. Before it had only range problems, now every 2 days you need to either reboot ur computer or disable and re-enable bluetooth to work (fun for iMac which has bluetooth keyboard/trackpad). Tested latest beta, same issue, so it seems Apple will not fix this issue in this osx version. Maybe on the next one...maybe.
Tested with 10.11.3 and 10.11.4. Issue not fixed.
not sure why but after turning off my keyboard and trackpad, then back on again it's working fine
I found disabling handoff feature solve that problem. (found here https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/221767/bluetooth-audio-choppy-skips-on -el-capitan/225965#225965?newreg=4eee32d30b1541ac8cd95bbf938f7bac)
Same problem for me: El Capitan 10.11.4 (15E65) on Mac mini (Late 2012).
I can't stream bluetooth audio since I installed El Capitan. It was working fine on Yosemite.
Disconnecting bluetooth keyboard or trackpad "fix" it but since I have *only* bluetooth keyboard and trackpad to control it, it's not really an option.
How can we formally report bug to Apple?
According to other posts, this was a trick that used to work, but not anymore in El Capitan.
SOLVED!
I had this problem on both my MacBook (early 2015) and Mac Mini (late 2012 - core i5 2.5 / 16gb ram) both running el capitan.
I was able to fix it so audio plays back perfectly without skipping!
download Hardware I/O Tools for XCode, open Bluetooth Explorer, then open up Audio Options - change the settings so their the same as they are in the screenshot I'm uploading and you will have perfect streaming audio!
Remember to RESTART YOUR MAC or the settings will not take effect.
Cheers!
El Capitan - bluetooth streaming choppy
