static, pops and crackles using AirPods with Audacity 2.3.1 and MacBook Pro iOS 10.14.4

[mellowcello]

Thank you so much for the continued assistance, but changing the buffer number--either up or down--makes no difference.

[steve]

Unfortunately I don't know how to assist further, other than suggesting that you use wired headphones. I don't use (or own) any bluetooth headphones myself, so I'm not able to run any tests at this end.

I'll ask about this on the developer's mailing list and report back if anyone has other ideas, but I'm not holding a lot of hope as I doubt that many (if any) of them use bluetooth headphones.

In the meantime, I'll leave this topic open for anyone else to make suggestions.

[ollin]

For anyone else stumbling on this thread, I can report that increasing the buffer length (to 400ms) fixed the issue for me (Audacity 2.3.0 / macOS 10.14.4 / AirPods 2).

[mellowcello]

I have found that adopting this setting has not helped the noise problem at all. Still looking for a solution....

[24blur]

Changing the buffer length to 500 did it for me. Completely fixed all the crackles and weird sounds. Thank you!

[kozikowski]

Wireless headphones can give other odd problems. There's a delay due to the extra processing and as a rule, only the computer supports wireless, not microphones, interfaces, or sound mixers. That means they can't be used for overdubbing, sound-on-sound, and other super critical sound work.

Koz