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Restart Mac OS X coreaudio daemon. Useful if you cannot change the audio output device to Airplay.
sudo kill `ps -ax | grep 'coreaudiod' | grep 'sbin' |awk '{print $1}'`
# or...
sudo killall coreaudiod
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skowalak commented Apr 17, 2024

@luckman212 , @crunk1
There is a reference in the macOS Release Notes about this, seems like it is no longer possible to kickstart coreaudiod.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-notes/macos-14_4-release-notes#Core-Audio

If you are unable to uninstall blackhole-2ch because the uninstall_postflight fails you could try changing the postflight command in the following file <homebrew prefix>/Caskroom/blackhole-2ch/.metadata/<version>/<timestamp>/Casks/blackhole-2ch.rb to use a different command or no command at all. Since version 0.6.0 the new behavior is reflected in blackhole-2ch homebrew package.

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aokie commented Apr 23, 2024

👍

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ishar19 commented Jul 29, 2024

sudo killall coreaudiod

Worked for me, in M2 PRO 14", pc could sense the jack but audio was not coming, got fixed after the command

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etc commented Aug 27, 2024

sudo killall coreaudiod AirPlayXPCHelper

Thank you so much @stefanhinker this is—finally—what fixed the issue for me.

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I used to have it saved in my notes. I’m glad I found it here.

sudo killall coreaudiod

Worked perfectly. This issue is so annoying.

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