Andrew’s Mac Tips Weblog

So there I was, using Minuteur, as I often do — only this time when the countdown reached zero there was silence. I panicked a little and tried trashing the preferences file; trashing the application and re-installing it; moving the included sound files to various other locations…

I was literally pulling my hair out in desperation so I decided to put that problem on hold for a while. Then tonight I visited Future Tense to listen to some streaming audio via Real Player. Again — silence.

So, this might be a system problem rather than a Minuteur problem. I browsed Apple’s support forums and found that someone else had reported loss of sound from Real Player. The suggested solution was to open Audio MIDI Setup and reset the sample rate to 44100.0hz.

Bingo. Audio restored to Real Player, and Minuteur. A few days ago I installed mPlayer — a multi format audio and video playback application, and took it off shortly thereafter. I suspect that’s the event that changed the MIDI configuration.