Cracking Sounds on MacOS 26

After upgrading to MacOS 26 there are cracking sounds when listening to audio over speaker. Here is how to solve it.

Flo
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This Apple forum post gives the answer:

sudo killall coreaudiod

But it seems to have to be repeated multiple times.

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