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headphones in powerbook = sound only from left side?
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Have you checked your audio settings?orijinal said:
System Preferences > Sound...then make sure that the audio is center panned. (The panning can be set different for speaker playback, or headphone playback.)
If that is ok, check out Audio MIDI Settings in the Utilities folder.
Make sure that both left and right channels are unmuted, etc.
Also make sure what ever program you are using to play audio (iTunes, etc.) is playing a stereo file. If you are playing back a mono file you will only get the left channel.
Is the headphone plug pushed in all the way? Try various sound files. If all else fails, try a restart. Sometimes weird things happen, and a restart will fix them. (My PB used to set the panning to hard left on startup occasionally, but seems to have been fixed with 10.4.2)
Sorry if any of the suggestions insulted your intelligence! Not my intention, just too many "little" things that could be the problem. Good luck!
orijinal said:
Glad it works now!
FYI, when you plug in headphone, CoreAudio changes the Output to "Headphones", which has it's own properties associated with it. If you unplug the headphones it will revert to "Internal Speakers", which has it's own properties associated with it as well.
Now the question is, why was your headphone settings set panned hard to the left??? Strange indeed.
Good to know. That may explain a problem some of the undergrads have been having in our elec music lab. I just figured it was user error on their parts!stridey said:
I was just about to make a thread about this. I found that my PB G4 gradually pans the speaker balance to the left, usually over a period of a few days. I thought I was just occasionally hitting a shortcut key combination that slide the balance slider, but I couldn't figure out what it was.
Any articles on this bug (if they exist) would be great. Anyone have any?
Any articles on this bug (if they exist) would be great. Anyone have any?
Similar experience
Under 10.3 my powerbook used to do a similar thing. It usually happened after the machine crashed. The sound slider went all the way to the left.
Under 10.3 my powerbook used to do a similar thing. It usually happened after the machine crashed. The sound slider went all the way to the left.
exact same thing happened to me, i posted on the forums and the same solution fixed me too. if its a but it better get fixed soon because i didn 't set it to only the leftside
biohazard_6969 said:
I just had the same problem with my brand new ibook running 10.4.2. Was freaking me out for a bit. Strange bug. I never used to use headphones but I've been calling my friend in London using skype and I have been using the headphones every time I call. Maybe the bug is a result of plugging and unplugging headphones at certain times or just doing it frequently?