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mouldy07 · 2008-08-04 9:08 pm

Hi everyone, my girl friend was watch youtube on my macbook with my ipod headphone. After she finish i removed the ipod headphone from the headphone jack on the side of my mac. Now i can't hear any music from my speakers, the only sound i get it the boost up tune when i start my mac up! The only way i can listen to music is via my headphones. When i go a tyr turn up the volume from my key board it shows the no extry symbol under the volume level on screen. And when i try play music in itunes, a red light is coming from my headphone jack and no music from my speakers!

and to top things off my apple care just ran out!

please help

arkayn · 2008-08-05 12:50 am

What is happening is the optical output is stuck on, something went in too far and pushed in the optical switch.

Some suggestions out there are canned air, toothpick/matchstick (being very careful) or plugging and removing the headphones until the light goes out.

mouldy07 · 2008-09-01 12:26 am

so if i use a toothpick and press the red light it should turn off? I tried my ipod headphone jack and it didn't work, but ill try another pair to see if they works better.

thanks for your help

pottymouth · 2008-09-01 9:59 am

mouldy07 wrote:
so if i use a toothpick and press the red light it should turn off? I tried my ipod headphone jack and it didn't work, but ill try another pair to see if they works better.

thanks for your help

Well, I dunno about stickin a toothpick in there, that sounds like a bad idea. And it's not the light that needs to be pressed. The light is the audio source. You need to find why it's on.

Go to Audio Midi Setup in your Utilities folder and check the output settings there. If there's anything funky, it should be fairly obvious.

Alien · 2008-09-01 10:04 am

There's a sensor in the audio output port that is supposed to detect when a plug is inserted or removed, and switches the audio output channels accordingly. Sometimes, this process fails.

Carefully sticking a toothpick into the headphones port may set things right, again. You don't need to press anything. In fact, you mustn't press anything.

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ukimalefu · 2008-09-01 10:45 am

I've fixed that by plugging and unplugging the same headphones. No need to push hard or anything, do it normally.

mouldy07 · 2008-09-02 7:50 pm

i checked out my audio MIDI setup and everything is fine in there apart for that i says that the output is not supported! Guess that's where the problem lies hey. I havn't tried using my other headphone jack yet, Ill try that out tonight and see if it makes a differnces to my output settings.

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#1 2008-08-04 9:08 pm

No Music Sound From My Macbook

#2 2008-08-05 12:50 am

Re: No Music Sound From My Macbook

#3 2008-09-01 12:26 am

Re: No Music Sound From My Macbook

#4 2008-09-01 9:59 am

Re: No Music Sound From My Macbook

mouldy07 wrote:

#5 2008-09-01 10:04 am

Re: No Music Sound From My Macbook

#6 2008-09-01 10:45 am

Re: No Music Sound From My Macbook

#7 2008-09-02 7:50 pm

Re: No Music Sound From My Macbook

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