I was just playing around with the Boxee Beta and it hung. I force quit it, and subsequently tried to play a song in iTunes. It wouldn’t play. I tried playing a new song and took note: the time didn’t move from 0:00, the song information was scrolling at the top, and there was a speaker icon next to the song. Yes, the volume was up. Quitting iTunes and reopening it didn’t fix it (tried a few times).
So, I opened up Activity Monitor and did some quick searches to see if I could find something related to iTunes, Boxee, and Sound. Anyway, there is a process called coreaudiod – the core audio daemon. Force-quit that (requires admin privileges) and boom! iTunes works again.
Thanks! this was much simpler than the other ‘fixes’ I found for this iTunes problem (which involved uninstalling and reinstalling iTunes and Quicktime).
I’ve tried this and still have the exact same problem with Itunes not playing, but I also have a mute that can’t be turned off issue as well. Does anyone have advice for this?
Great suggestion — it worked for us. Thanks!!!!
Thank you very much. This audio problem had been driving me bananas for too long. I have found that I occasionally have to re-do the fix, but it’s only a matter of moments to get my sound back, so I’m not complaining.
It really really worked…. Thanks a Ton for this suggestion.
Worked perfectly, thanks so much!