rMBP headphone jack

[jozeppy26]

Any reason why my rMBP headphone jack would recently start only playing sound out of the left earphone (the right has sound, but it's very quiet)? I tried with 2 different headphones, both of which work fine on my iPhone. Faulty? Dirty?

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Issue not fixed after system restart.

 

[jozeppy26]

Scratch everything, I'm an idiot.

 

[hutch34]

Scratch everything, I'm an idiot.

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You're not an idiot! This happened to me on my Macbook Air a few weeks ago. I didn't remember adjusting any settings at all...all the sudden everything is fading to one side.

Checked the balance settings and lo and behold the slider was skewed.

 

[aman20177]

Scratch everything, I'm an idiot.

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[laurihoefs]

Scratch everything, I'm an idiot.

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Hey, you found a solution, that's most important

 

[Rocketpaul]

You're not an idiot! This happened to me on my Macbook Air a few weeks ago. I didn't remember adjusting any settings at all...all the sudden everything is fading to one side.

Checked the balance settings and lo and behold the slider was skewed.

me too, i thought i must have adjusted it at some point, but i dont think i did.

 

[Zeov]

funny, happened to me too.. and i see no reason to change this.. i have no idea how it happened

 

[calderone]

Pro-tip:

Hold option, click volume in menu bar, select desired output.

Much faster than going into sysprefs.

 

[entropi]

this must be somekind of an audio bug in OS X, it has happened to me a lot on both my 17" portable macs (in OS 10.4 to 10.8)

 

[Michason]

It's a bug. This had happened to me aswell and I got so angry cause I thought there was something wrong with the headphones and I had only just bought them.

 

[jozeppy26]

"Glad" to hear it's at least a common problem and not just me. Strange why this happens, I just figured it had something complicated to do with the "Boom" and "SoundFlowerBed" drivers I had installed.