Suno No Sound on Mac After macOS Tahoe: The Safari vs Chrome Fix

Suno went silent after the Tahoe update. Switching to Chrome fixed it.

A client wanted to use the remix feature in Suno Studio, but when he pressed play nothing happened. The playhead didn’t move and there was no sound. It had been like that ever since he updated his Mac to macOS Tahoe, and he was using Suno in Safari.

This came up during a much longer run of remote sessions with him, mostly migrating his plugins. Normally I wouldn’t get involved in something this small, but we sorted it while we were there.

What I tried

I checked the basics first: nothing muted, volume up, and the track looked as though it should play. But when he pressed play, the playhead really wasn’t moving. I suspected a clocking problem, so I refreshed the browser to make it reconnect to the Mac’s sound. That didn’t change anything.

Next I switched the Mac’s sound output from his RME Fireface interface to the Mac’s built-in speakers, and refreshed Suno again. This time it played.

So Suno itself was fine. The problem was somewhere between the browser and the Fireface.

When I switched the output back to the Fireface, Suno carried on playing. He was happy at that point, but I wanted to be sure it would last. We moved around Suno’s library and played different tracks, and that all worked. Then we went back into Suno Studio, and it stopped again: no playhead, no sound, play button doing nothing. Switching the output to the built-in speakers and back fixed it again, but only for a while.

The fix

So I went looking online. I found recent posts, from within the last month, from other people having audio problems with Suno since updating to Tahoe. One said his problems went away when he moved from Safari to Chrome.

There was no reason for my client to stick with Safari for Suno. We downloaded the latest Chrome, he signed in to Suno there, and we tested it. Playback worked, and it stayed working as we moved around different parts of the site.

It fits with my own experience that browsers don’t all handle audio equally well. Firefox, for example, can’t use my laptop’s built-in mic for voice typing in Google Docs, but Chrome can.

If Suno has gone quiet on your Mac since the Tahoe update and you’re using Safari, try Chrome before anything else.

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