On 4 Nov 2009, at 00:02, David Loberg Code wrote:
I have been enjoying all of these One-Liners (ChucKles? TweecKs? ChaiKus?) http://electro-music.com/forum/topic-13512.html Some of them kill my audio. Is there a way to clear or reset the audio engine without rebooting my MacBook?
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). You might try killing off coreaudiod. Do say ps -ax | grep audio 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. Hans