Music App very weird with MacOs Big Sur latest beta

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Created Oct ’20

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Hi, I have airpods pro and usually listen with them through my mac using the music app. But after restarting the Mac, i noticed that the force touch controls on airpods pro and the no touchbar controls arent working with music app. Also even if i pair my airpods pro sound is amazing as usual except when i put a song on music it is really horrible. I tried pairing my airpods pro with my iphone and everything works as usual. Pls tell me how to fix music app on my mac. Its not the airpods pro or mac, its the music app, it dosent work anymore.

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chrisgerne OP

Nov ’20

This has been an issue for a while. I just found a blog post from 2017 that highlights the issue and provides a "temporary workaround" recommended by Apple, (three years later)

Their solution -- which worked -- was to turn off the Airpods microphone.
Go to: Sound Preferences >> switch the sound input from your airpods to the internal microphone.

The article explains some of the technology behind the issue that causes the problem. But the reality is, this is an old problem tied to Bluetooth codecs.

The top google result for "Fixing Extremely Poor or Muffled Call Quality When Using AirPods and MacOS" explains the issue in detail.

Three... Years...

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segfaultsamurai OP

Mar ’21

Their solution -- which worked -- was to turn off the AirPods microphone.

Reporting in a few months later and I'm still facing issues with this.

I'm running the release edition of macOS Big Sur and I've noticed that my AirPods Pro Bluetooth quality also drops when I open the "Bluetooth" settings page within System Preferences.

In macOS Catalina, a user could view the current Bluetooth codec in use by holding down the option key and clicking on the Bluetooth icon in the menu bar.

However, they removed this feature in the Big Sur redesign. I'm very frustrated with this, because now there's no easy way to see which audio codec is in use by the AirPods.

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