MP 7,1 Coreaudiod has to be Force Quit Constantly

[choreo]

I posted a similar thread a few months ago when I was still on Catalina (with no answers), but I am still have the same issue the past few months in Big Sur. I originally thought it might be a Catalina bug, but now I am wondering if it is tied to the Mac Pro 7,1?

It started this strange behavior around last December I think. Sometimes when I launch say a 30 minute Quicktime tutorial, it auto-runs through the entire video in maybe 5 seconds? It also "sometimes" does the same thing when playing a video in a browser.

I found one thread on the Internet that suggested opening Activity Monitor when this occurs, selecting "coreaudiod" and force quitting it. When I do that it immediately restores everything back to normal (as well as relaunching coreaudiod itself).

So, what is causing this to happen? It never did this for the first 1-1/2 years? It now happens maybe once a week. Today, I restarted the machine and launched a Quicktime movie before opening any other apps and it shot right to the end of the video in 3 seconds - force quit coreaudiod and videos play fine now.

 

[eicca]

I don't know if this will be of any value, but it's the only other thread on coreaudiod issues I know if at the moment. Might be worth a check even though the symptoms are different.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/fix-sustained-12-15-coreaudiod-cpu-usage-on-m1-possibly-intel-too.2331498/

 

[edanuff]

Is this with USB audio? I find that I have to do a sudo killall coreaudiod several times a day or audio on my external USB audio messes up. I have it set up as a Shortcuts menu item and preemptively reset coreaudio before Zoom calls. Had this problem both on an MP 6,1 and a Studio so I don’t think it’s specific to the 7,1.

 

[profdraper]

I posted a similar thread a few months ago when I was still on Catalina (with no answers), but I am still have the same issue the past few months in Big Sur. I originally thought it might be a Catalina bug, but now I am wondering if it is tied to the Mac Pro 7,1?

It started this strange behavior around last December I think. Sometimes when I launch say a 30 minute Quicktime tutorial, it auto-runs through the entire video in maybe 5 seconds? It also "sometimes" does the same thing when playing a video in a browser.

I found one thread on the Internet that suggested opening Activity Monitor when this occurs, selecting "coreaudiod" and force quitting it. When I do that it immediately restores everything back to normal (as well as relaunching coreaudiod itself).

So, what is causing this to happen? It never did this for the first 1-1/2 years? It now happens maybe once a week. Today, I restarted the machine and launched a Quicktime movie before opening any other apps and it shot right to the end of the video in 3 seconds - force quit coreaudiod and videos play fine now.

Odd, have never seen this & indeed the only reason I would have such an over-priced box is eactly becuase of audio integrity, aggregate audio etc in a (comparatively complex) recording studio. FWIW, I'd suggest this might be a local issue rather than machine /OS specific. And the only answer for macs then is a clean install of a new OS - even if just to try this out on a dedicated boot volume. If all is good, then clean install apps, plugs etc; I'd be inclined to leave out any Time Machine restore if there has been some local cuprlit /prefs at work. I hope that helps.

 

[LeonPro]

I run two DACs connected to the Mac - one connected to a headphone amp, the other connected to studio monitors. I don't have any issues where I would have quit Core Audio to function again. I leave the MP on 24/7 unless I restart under Boot Camp.

My only annoyance is that when it does restart back to Mac OS, I randomly lose my Core Audio settings back to 44.1 Khz versus 384K Khz. Sometimes it retains it. Sometimes it resets. But under Boot Camp, all settings are retained. Wonder why Apple can't make this right.

 

[infohou]

I have had the coreaudio issue with a Avid Carbon that plugs into an ethernet port. Instead of restarting coreaudio, sometimes it works to just restart the Carbon. It happened today, but it has been better lately. Maybe 11.6.7 helped?

 

[keef_khan]

I can just add to this that I still get this issue on my Intel MacBook Pro on macOS Ventura 13.4. Several times a week my AirPods Pro will start to have cracking sound in their audio (only when connected to my Intel MacBook Pro or M1 Mac Mini, not iPhone) and video playback often breaks after a few seconds. Usually disconnecting my AirPods or switching to another device would fix the issue somewhat. But today when I tried playing anything from the internal speakers it was not only cracking like crazy but pne speaker was about 3 seconds behind the other speaker so it gave this weird moving effect when listening. Restarting coreaudiod fixed all of it, but the audio issues happen way too often. I just recently reinstalled Ventura through Recovery Mode and the issue persisted even after the reinstall. macOS audio driver (both Intel and M1) seems all kinda of broken.