Why You Should Post Your Practical Advice Online

People who describe how they solved a problem make the Internet a better place

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The other day, I was doing some audio-editing on my Mac using Logic Pro — but I kept getting maddening errors.

Sound would play for a few seconds, then stutter; then the whole software would grind to a halt. A popup error-box would say “The last selected audio interface is not available”. It looked like this …

I had no idea what was going on. I’d been using Logic Pro for the last 13 years, and I’d never had this problem.

I tried the usual stuff: Rebooting my computer, checking for updates to Logic Pro, etc. Nothing worked.

So finally, after 15 minutes of bashing my head against the error message, I googled it.

I quickly found a couple of forums where some poor soul had the same problem, but nobody had responded. Then after sifting through a few more forums, bingo: I struck gold.

Over at the Logic Pro Help Forum, a member named “taffy” had posted the exact same problem I’d encountered — and another member…