Pulseaudio Dies On Macbook Pro 16,1 very often I fixed it easily Open this file: /etc/pulse/daemon.conf, for example: sudo nano /etc/pulse/daemon.conf Then find the lines realtime-scheduling = yes and realtime-priority = 5 and unomment them by removing ; at the beginning so it becomes: realtime-scheduling = yes realtime-priority = 5 Save the file Re-run the pulseaudio and you're done!