audio output on macbook

[Ronfire7]

I see that Macbook can output audio on a usb port.
I was wondering if that works better than a headphone plug?

[mrbutt89]

I have no experience of Macbook, but only yesterday I was reading about a problem with audio output via USB on some devices, where an adaptor is used to connect to the audio input on a 2B (or similar) and is not recognised as a valid device by the USB device. It might be worth a try, but if you have a headphone output from the audio device, my feeling is you might as well stick with that.

[admin]

I generally use the headphone output.

Si

[SteveBlue]

also have issues on my imac with the headphone output, often the 2b is not recognized and it does not switch to headphone output on my imac. did anyone find a good and not too expensive usb audio solution that works well?

[merry]

Hi,
I've occasionally had this issue on my Mac, usually it recognises my 312/2B but sometimes inexplicably? it just doesn't and I have to go into the Mac's system preferences and select headphones/headphone port manually from there and then it will work.

So! try going into 'system preferences' from the apple icon in the top left corner of a Mac's screen, then 'sound' on the third row down in system preferences, then 'select a device for sound output' and click 'headphones/headphone port'.