MacBook Pro (2018) Audio on videos cuts out randomly

I have a similar issue, which use to occur intermittently, but now seems to happen daily. When I try to watch a YouTube video or play an audio file, the sound is garbled. For example, I try to play a song from iTunes or Google music, and the sound appears to fast forward to the end. It happens across all browsers as well, so it's not a localized problem. Rebooting my computer clears it up temporarily, but usually by the next morning it happens again, and I have to reboot my MacBook yet again. Very annoying.

I'm having issues with audio drops on my new Mac mini running 10.14.1. I am an audio engineer and this issue seems to translate into my recorded audio as well as general audio output. What you're talking about seems to be related to my issue. My dropouts are 1 second at most and happen while listening to audio across the board (Safari, Logic, Spotify). Granted I am using an external audio interface (Lynx Aurora 8 via usb). I assume the problem is happening because my hardware isn't interfacing correctly or there is a Mac system issue. It's really tough for me to isolate the problem and monitor through the mini's audio D/A converter since most of my work is based around the I/O of the external audio interface.

Do you have any more information on avoiding coreaudio overload?

I'm having the same or closely related issues as well.

USB audio interface (RME Babyface Pro)

MBP 15 2018/i9/32GB/1TB SSD/Mojave

Seems to be reducing in frequency with updates but still maybe once or twice a "session".

Truly frustrating.

Hi,

Recently, I’ve started having the same problem on my oldschool MBP 17" Early-2011

i7 2,2GHz

16GB RAM

regular HDD 750GB

Mac OS SIERRA 10.12.6 (not High Sierra!)

Safari 12.0.2 (12606.3.4.1.4)

Precisely, audio cuts out while playing video in a browser (Safari) with no dependence on whether I open it in a regular or Private Browsing window.

I’ve set entire Siri to Disabled.

A reboot seems to fix off-browser video playback (i.e. in MPV), but not the browser video playback issues.

I don’t experience any cut outs in Youtube, but other streaming services are affected.

It seems the issue is related to a recent macOS security update, Safari or Flash/Java update - but I haven’t tried a rollback yet.

What I noticed is that when audio is cut out during video playback, I can’t bring the volume up or down and I’ve got a regular gray sound level square temporarily displayed, but with a small crossed circle (unavailable?)

Unfortunately I have a similar issue with my 2018 MacBook Pro 15". was just watching Netflix via Safari and the audio will cut out about once every 10-15 mins.

Not sure what to do about it, I purchased my Laptop brand new from very.co.uk.

Same issue, MacOS Mojave 10.14.2, MacBook Pro 15-inch 2018, ...

Main use of my macbook is for producing music (with Ableton live) and playing live, so a cut in audio is not a possibility!

I found a workaround: turn off the Wifi. When Wifi is turned off, I never experience audio cuts. This works for playing live, as I don't need network access in this case. But it's definitively not a solution in most normal cases!

I've also been having this problem, for about a year now.

I'm on an iMac 2017, 32GB, 3.5 GHZ i5.

Mojave 10.14.2

It really is annoying - there are various workarounds, but why should we be having to do this?

Sometimes the only solution is, for example if pressing stop on a youtube video also stops everything else (such as iTunes) - to turn down the sound (but not press stop) on that video. Or equally just turn the sound down on iTunes so other apps can run sound.

I'm running High Sierra Media Key Enabler which does help to some extent, but it's still as buggy as....deeply annoying, particularly because I edit sound and video in various packages, and often lose track of what exactly I have to turn down or

off to get the sound running properly - I can't believe Apple have taken so long to look into this, considering the time span of the issue, which seems to be relatively widespread. Help!!

im on a mbp late 2013 and this problem started 3weeks ago and i dont know what to do ...

when im searching for new music on the net it ramdomly dropout sometimes 5min sometimes 20-30

and i gotta reboot for the sound to come back?

im using firefox as a browser

it does it listening to music from the mbp itself too and using a external usb soundcard samething

Don't know if this will help anyone or if it's the same issue. After a period of sleep video (many sources and if one isn't working the rest aren't working) and audio (iTunes) won't stream. Video looks like it's buffering and I get a message that if the video doesn't start to play restart your machine. After a restart all works well. I've searched and found someone indicating audio out will sometimes lock and when it locks videos won't play. This advice was specific to speakers using USB interface, but I don't know if it happens to other output. I happen to have speakers connected via USB. So after sleep I get buffering, as soon as I change the output video starts without restart. I've not figured out how to stop this behavior, but I can at least jump into preferences and get going again without a restart. I know this is an old thread. Don't know if this is the problem for most of you, but something that's easy to try.

i am having the same problem with a new MacBook Pro 13 2018

Especially on YouTube

It looks like this might even be bigger than what I had initially thought!!
My MacBook Pro 2018 version speakers are crackling.
MacBook Pro 2018 - Speakers Crackling | MacRumors Forums

Edit: After upgrading to Mojave developer beta 4. I've downgraded back to High Sierra by erasing the hard drive and installing a fresh copy of High Sierra. Still, same problem persists.

Hey, I was just wondering if you’ve figured out anything regarding the audio problem?

I got the same problem, any updates?

from what I could gather, opening an incognito window has always worked for me, which makes me think it has to be a software problem. or maybe I just got lucky with it so far