Flash suddenly quit working/no sound
A couple of days ago, my iMacG5 in my office was working fine. Yesterday, I went to musictheory.net to experiment with their interval trainer, and no sound would play. At first I thought it was just that site, so I went to the help section and downloaded the newer version of Flash they recommended. After that, not only did that site not produce any sound, but all other sites that rely on Flash for sound also quit playing sound (youtube, etc). Sites that use mp3 or Quicktime still play as usual.
This is maddening! Any ideas?
This is maddening! Any ideas?
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Try uninstalling the Flash plugin using the official uninstaller from Adobe. Then reinstall the plugins.
Just tried that, and no go. Thanks for trying, though!
I went to musictheory.net to plan an online supplement assignment for my theory class (I teach music at UofL). The ear trainer on that site wouldn't play any sound. After following the links they provided to get the plugins to make the site work, all other sites that require flash quit working. FWIW, the site they directed me to was the official Adobe site. Strange enough, that site works fine on all my other iMacs.
http://forums.appleinsider.com/showthread.php?t=76605
http://forums.appleinsider.com/showthread.php?t=76660
those two seem to have the most information.
and there was one started by sequitur that compiled most of the suggestions into one thread (somewhat pointlessly starting yet another that people wouldn't pay attention to) that I can't seem to find right now.
OK, go to Your Home Directory > Library > Preferences and delete the Macromedia folder. If that doesn't work, go into System Preferences > QuickTime > Advanced > MIME Settings > Miscellaneous and uncheck Flash media. Let me know how it goes.
Tried both of these, and no luck. Strangely, though, there wasn't an option box for Flash media to uncheck. I wonder if there should have been?
Bob,
thanks for the links. I will print those threads out (since so much of the advice seems to lead me to places where browsers need to be closed) and try the possible solutions one by one.
I'm glad my home iMacs are still working in this regard, but I have to say that at this point, I don't trust ANY of them as much as I used to.
Try this: http://fredericiana.com/2006/06/14/f...-sound-on-osx/
Report back with the results. This is very odd.
I'm sorry you feel that way, but the difficulties you're experiencing are quite uncommon. How many problems can you say you've had with your G5 since you've had it? Compare that with a PC. I'm sure there's a big difference.
Try this: http://fredericiana.com/2006/06/14/f...-sound-on-osx/
Report back with the results. This is very odd.
You just fixed the problem. THANK YOU!
I think the program that swapped it over to the higher sample rate was Sibelius, but I'm not sure. Amazing how something that simple coudl screw up the whole machine like that.
Thanks again, Mr. teedoff, sir.
But my MIDI built-in settings were already at the correct rate.
This is what fixed it for me:
open Applications/Utilities/Audio MIDI Setup.app
choose MIDI devices
click once to select IAC driver (mine was grayed out at first)
show info
check box for device is online
choose Audio devices
properties for built-in input
change volume slider on 1 and 2 to some volume
Not sure which one of these things fixed it, but yay!
HTH