<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>I have tried the sudo kill suggestion, below. It gives me two pops with the audio, but doesn't restore anything. I still have to shut down and reboot to get my audio working again.</div><div>I have also uninstalled Perian. Any other tricks?</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I have been enjoying all of these One-Liners (ChucKles? TweecKs? ChaiKus?)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> <a href="http://electro-music.com/forum/topic-13512.html">http://electro-music.com/forum/topic-13512.html</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Some of them kill my audio. Is there a way to clear or reset the audio engine without rebooting my MacBook?<br></blockquote><br>It might not be this stuff that fries your Mac, but some sound component in combination with the latest system updates. I had to remove Perian (for which I used a complicated procedure), and apply Combo 10.5.8 (and then do a permissions repair).<br><br>You might try killing off coreaudiod. Do say<br> ps -ax | grep audio<br>so see the process number <pid> of coreaudiod, and then do 'sudo kill <pid>'. As it is a daemon, run by launchd (see 'man launchctl'), it will restart immediately. You may also try putting it to sleep, and awaken again.<br><br> Hans<br></blockquote></div><div><br></div></body></html>