My external speakers won't work after installing Adobe Flash Player? WHY!?

[acehigh2925]

Weirdest thing happened today.

I have had a MacMini for about 2 months now, and use brand new Creative brand speakers to plug into it. Everything has worked fine, but this morning as I went onto a band's MySpace page I was informed that the music could not be played without installing a newer version of Adobe Flash Player. So I clicked the link and went through the installation and sure enough now the MySpace music player came up. Unfortunately, I noticed there was no sound coming out of my speakers. First, I checked each plug, but still no sound. Second, I reinstalled Adobe Flash Player for Mac (from the Adobe website), but it still didn't work. Third, I took the audio plug connecting my speakers and MacMini out and noticed that the music was playing through my MacMini, but when I plugged it back in I noticed that it wasn't coming through my external speakers. Dumbfounded, I plugged my iPod in through the Aux In on my speakers and noticed it worked perfectly fine. Finally, I switched audio cables connecting my MacMini and my Creative brand speakers and it still didn't work!!!!! What is going on here!?!?

 

[surflordca]

Weirdest thing happened today.

I have had a MacMini for about 2 months now, and use brand new Creative brand speakers to plug into it. Everything has worked fine, but this morning as I went onto a band's MySpace page I was informed that the music could not be played without installing a newer version of Adobe Flash Player. So I clicked the link and went through the installation and sure enough now the MySpace music player came up. Unfortunately, I noticed there was no sound coming out of my speakers. First, I checked each plug, but still no sound. Second, I reinstalled Adobe Flash Player for Mac (from the Adobe website), but it still didn't work. Third, I took the audio plug connecting my speakers and MacMini out and noticed that the music was playing through my MacMini, but when I plugged it back in I noticed that it wasn't coming through my external speakers. Dumbfounded, I plugged my iPod in through the Aux In on my speakers and noticed it worked perfectly fine. Finally, I switched audio cables connecting my MacMini and my Creative brand speakers and it still didn't work!!!!! What is going on here!?!?

Have you tried rebooting?

 

[localoid]

Are these analog speakers or USB speakers you're using?


There's two places to check sound related settings on Macs:

1. Click the at top left, and go to System Preferences -> Sound and click the Audio Devices tab. See if your settings look correct.

2. Applications -> Utilities -> Audio MIDI Setup and click on the Audio Interfaces tab. Check your settings there and click the Configure Speakers button to see if that's setup correctly.

 

[acehigh2925]

Thank you both!

localoid - I did what you said and was able to get them to work again!