Great, glad it was something simple! I'm not sure why it would do that, but I've seen Audacity cause my Mac to mute itself on a somewhat regular basis upon first opening the app. I've taken to just whacking the mute button until I get my audio back. <smile> > On May 4, 2015, at 1:05 PM, Phil Halton <[email protected]> wrote: > > Alex, > Thanks a lot. I didn’t know the two volumes were independent. Turns out you > were right, the headphone volume was down. > I had been streaming radium to a pa system via the headphone jack when it > just went silent. I assumed the jack failed, but somehow, either radium or > the mac must have shut down the headphone volume on its own. > I wonder if having the mac connected to a mixer board somehow caused the > problem, like the mac shut it down to protect itself from a surge or > something? Any ideas? > thanks again for saving me a trip to the Apple store. > >> On May 4, 2015, at 12:47 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> How do you know it failed? As with iOS, the volumes with headphones in and >> out are independent. In other words, it may just be that you muted your Mac >> with headphones in, so now it mutes itself when you re-connect them but is >> not muted when you remove them. Verify your volume settings, or even >> headphones, aren't the problem first. I've had a couple big scares along >> this line, only to have it turn out to be nothing. >>> On May 4, 2015, at 12:30 PM, Matthew Dierckens <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> Hello. >>> I'm sad to say that it's not going to be cheap to fix. You'll have to get a >>> new logic board and that's pretty expensive. Do you have apple care on the >>> unit? >>> >>> God bless. >>> Matthew Dierckens >>> Certified Assistive Technology Specialist >>> Macintosh, Windows and IOS Trainer >>> U.S. number: 573-401-1018 >>> Personal Email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> >>> On May 4, 2015, at 12:23, Phil Halton <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> I bought this MBA in August 2013 and yesterday the headphone jack failed. I >>> have a feeling its indicative of a bigger problem, maybe a motherboard? At >>> the least I don’t think its going to be an easy fix. Of course, I could be >>> way off. Any experience with getting this sort of problem fixed? >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries >>> <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries >>> <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. >> >> >> -- >> Have a great day, >> Alex Hall >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries >> <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>.
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