Comments on: Mac Audio Glitches: Serato Reports; Avoid 10.5.2, AirPort For Now

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:51:43 +0000

I’ve found that the most effective - though a bit inconvenient - way to use offending audio apps is to just turn the airport off. They work with no problem at all (this was a suggestion from the folks at Propellerhead). In the long run, this may be less convenient than reinstalling your system, but it works plenty well for me.

By: Create Digital Music » Fix for Mac Audio Dropouts: Roll Back Tiger AirPort Support

Mon, 12 May 2008 15:36:29 +0000

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By: george

george — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:06:57 +0000

I rolled back my .kext file to 2007-004. I know it sounds nasty but it fixed my audio glitches. Hope this helps:

http://esem.name/?p=131 - Tiger only.

By: custardweasel

custardweasel — Sun, 11 May 2008 21:31:39 +0000

I’ve recently reinstalled leopard and then updated to 10.5.2,
It’s a pretty clean system and I’m getting random hard crashes that I never used to get.

The mouse and keyboard freeze and I can’t get the system to recover.
It’s either 10.5.2 or I’ve suddenly developed a hardware fault.

dumb.

By: SatyrSynth

SatyrSynth — Sun, 11 May 2008 16:55:33 +0000

I was so worried something horrible had happened to my computer. Thank the lord its just a bug.

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Sat, 10 May 2008 17:02:40 +0000

Well, and I hate to rant, but it’s hard not to feel like:

* Apple has too many updates. (Okay, up for debate, but I know this is the reaction I hear from Mac users, perhaps because it isn’t always clear what you’re getting or what you need.)
* It’s too hard to tell critical security updates from bug fixes from additions, etc.
* Quality is sometimes unpredictable.
* There’s no easy way to roll back updates.

Now, all the rest of this would be okay if it weren’t so hard to uninstall updates.

The simple reality of the situation is that all kinds of things can go wrong in OS/driver development to cause glitches, so I don’t think on any OS we’ll get away from updates causing bugs in the near future — it goes with the territory. But there are things that could make this less painful.

By: matt

matt — Sat, 10 May 2008 16:57:18 +0000

Unfortunately this is true. I installed the Airport update in late March (I’m running 10.4.11) and it caused nothing but problems. It was the same glitches as you would expect from an improper buffer setting. Because I have to use this cpu live, I freaked out!

After getting tech support from Apple, the solution was to reinstall the OS from my original boot disk and then do the necessary updates. It was a nightmare for a day, but everything is back to normal now.

I’m staying away from every update from now on. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it is my new mantra :D

By: GUF

GUF — Sat, 10 May 2008 14:46:08 +0000

Whooo! Win XP SP3 FTW!

By: george

george — Sat, 10 May 2008 09:04:55 +0000

oh great. i just installed that tiger airport update after having it in my updates list for, like, ever….
:/