Fix for: Macromedia Flash not playing sound in Mac OS X

Posted to the in-case-you-have-this-problem-too department.

About 6 months ago, Flash stopped playing sound for me. This was terrible: I watch a lot of Flash animations! This aggravated me to such an extent that I went so far as to re-install OSX (which I needed to do anyway, after a semi-botched upgrade to Tiger).

Today, the same thing happened again. Argh! However, this time, I was able to enter in the correct combination of keywords on Apple Support’s search page, and found this article:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300832

1) Open Audio MIDI Setup (/Applications/Utilities/), then check the Audio Output setting.

2) Change the Audio Output setting to 44100.0 Hz.

3) Quit Audio MIDI Setup.

It solved my problem! Not sure which Application was the culprit that change that setting to begin with (GarageBand? OS X upgrade?), but I don’t care, its fixed!

Update: also mentioned here.

This entry was written by spud, posted on April 28, 2006 at 1:02 pm, filed under General. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment.

5 Comments

  1. omar
    Posted February 14, 2007 at 10:04 pm | Permalink

    thanks man. it saved my life

  2. matt
    Posted February 25, 2007 at 4:36 am | Permalink

    I love you more than words can say. Seriously, this fixed the problem in Flash and Director too.

  3. Dan E
    Posted August 6, 2007 at 3:12 am | Permalink

    +1 for the Thank you’s, too much work already without adding this little problem, easily solved because of you. Cheers.

  4. Nox
    Posted August 6, 2007 at 5:33 am | Permalink

    Odd problem. Thought about deleting the prefs but a quick search for the problem in Google returned this page.
    Many thanks.

  5. adam
    Posted October 26, 2007 at 10:49 pm | Permalink

    nice fix man. It did the trick.

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