iChat, Snow Leopard, and broken audio workaround

If you’re having audio issues with iChat on Snow Leopard (no audio, only one person gets audio, etc.)—particularly if you have a Time Capsule and a MobileMe account—here’s an unfortunate workaround:

Try turning off Back to My Mac.

I turned it off in System Prefs on both Macs in question, and also turned off Enable NAT Port Mapping Protocol on the Time Capsule and audio during chats and screen sharing works again.

Hopefully Apple has a fix for it (and for the damn annoying status message bug with AIM accounts) soon.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 at 11:53 pm and is filed under Apple, Mac OS X.

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Jim Mock is a web developer living in Portland, Oregon with his wife, twin sons, 3 dogs, and 2 cats. He has been a Boston Red Sox fan for as long as he can remember, is addicted to video games and web standards, and thinks you should be, too.