BUG#5947 now I'm getting get a crackle-bang sound

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Re: BUG#5947 now I'm getting get a crackle-bang sound

by Guest » Sun Feb 27, 2011 2:02 pm

I also had an issue with crackles and skips as described above on a Thinkpad with Vista and MM 3.2.4.1304 free version.

Switching Output plugin from DirectSound to waveOut output did it.
Before, with DirectSound still active Igot rid of it by turning off the WiFi adapter but problem returned as soon as I got back online with wireless even without surfing.

thanks for the hints here.

Re: BUG#5947 now I'm getting get a crackle-bang sound

by jstraw » Sat Dec 04, 2010 9:44 am

Was having the same problem. Thanks to the hints in this post, I checked my desktop and found that I had both my lan internet and wireless access enabled. I turned off the wireless access and that did it. No more pops and crackles.

Re: BUG#5947 now I'm getting get a crackle-bang sound

by snipertaz » Sun Apr 11, 2010 9:20 pm

I don't know if anyone is still having this issue but I was. I just wanted to share another possible solution that worked for me.

On my laptop I found, with the use of DPC Latency checker that the problem of pops was caused by my graphics card. My laptop has a Nvidia 8400m GS and apparently a lot of Nvidia's cards cause the latency due to the powermizer feature. I noticed that it tended to happen a lot more when I was listening to music and browsing through Firefox. When Firefox would render graphics intensive pages I would get the pops and snaps in audio.

Apparently it had something to do with the Powermizer setting of my graphics card, changing the performance. You can read here about users posting about there issues as well:
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=157614

A user there posted about a program that could change the settings so that the graphics card consistently stayed in one performance mode. That of course means that the power saving abilities are taken off and more heat generated, but I believe it to be well worth it since I listen to whenever I'm on my laptop. I'm not the most knowledgeable person on the topic, so I strongly urge you to read up before trying.

Here's the link to the program:
http://somemorebytes.com/wp/index.php/nvpmmanager/

Just in case here are my specs:
Windows 7 32bit / Windows Vista 32bit
Nvidia 8400m GS graphics card
Vostro 1400 laptop
Using HWMonitor I noted that my temps for GPU went from 58-70 range to 65-75 range

Re: BUG#5947 now I'm getting get a crackle-bang sound

by Guest » Tue Mar 30, 2010 3:25 am

I changed it from MMDS to wave and it seems to have cleard the problem - very happy - thanks foryou help, greatly appreciated :D

Re: BUG#5947 now I'm getting get a crackle-bang sound

by Lowlander » Thu Mar 25, 2010 11:04 am

Did you make sure the correct audio device is selected in the output plugin (Tools > Options > Output Plug-in) or try switching output plugins?

Re: BUG#5947 now I'm getting get a crackle-bang sound

by dave.strain » Thu Mar 25, 2010 2:43 am

I am getting crackle randomly in playback on build 1294 gold. It has always been perfect until recently but I had to reinstall MM and have this problem for the last month - driving me to consider another player, which is not my preference. All songs play fine in WMP.
Please help
Thanks

Re: BUG#5947 now I'm getting get a crackle-bang sound

by gpzbc » Tue Mar 23, 2010 1:03 am

Yes, I imagine you are correct. It used to annoy the heck out of me.
Fortunately, the problem went away.

Re: BUG#5947 now I'm getting get a crackle-bang sound

by agraham » Tue Mar 23, 2010 12:52 am

gpzbc wrote:I'm guessing that Windows 7 found a better wireless card driver that doesn't conflict with MM.
Here is my original thread.
The conflict was more likely between your wireless card driver and your sound card driver. When two devices can't agree about who gets to control the PCI bus your sound winds up interrupted. After years of working on this problem the dolts at Creative still can't get it right. Go on the Creative forums to hear some real rage! :-)

Re: BUG#5947 now I'm getting get a crackle-bang sound

by gpzbc » Tue Mar 23, 2010 12:36 am

I also used to have a conflict between my wireless card and MM that produced crackle pop sounds. It only happened when I was connected via WLAN, but went away as soon as I turned off my wireless card. The problem went away for me when I did a fresh install of Windows 7. I'm guessing that Windows 7 found a better wireless card driver that doesn't conflict with MM.
Here is my original thread. http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... rackle+pop

Re: BUG#5947 now I'm getting get a crackle-bang sound

by agraham » Tue Mar 23, 2010 12:19 am

GRW wrote:I have just started to hear a static click/pop at random points on a song. If I go back to that point, I cannot reproduce the pop.
GRW I was having exactly the same problem as you. I was girding myself to come onto the forums and see if anyone else was getting this and lo and behold this is the first post I looked at. Synchronicity I guess.

Thing is, now that I'm psyched up to fix the problem it's gone away! Arg. It like when you bring the car to the dealership and it won't make that noise.

Anyways... I think the problem might have something to do with my network card. Like a PCI choking issue or something like that. The reason I feel that is that I seemed to able to cause the popping fairly reliably by refreshing certain webpages - even in cases where that didn't cause a spike in CPU usage. Course hitting a webpage is gonna cause disk access etc. so it could be almost anything.

But I would be curious to hear if your problem went away if you disabled your network card in the device manager and then rebooted.

The other thing you might try if you're on Windows 7 is right click on the shortcut you use to launch MediaMonkey and choose properties then go the compatibility tab and choose "Run this program in compatibility mode for Vista (Service Pack 2)". This didn't fix the popping problem for me, but I had an obnoxious problem where moving from track to track would lock up MM for a second or two and this fixed it perfectly so who knows.

Re: BUG#5947 now I'm getting get a crackle-bang sound

by GRW » Mon Mar 22, 2010 10:49 am

It seems they do............a lot! Other than this issue, my current other bugbear is that I cannot get a duplicate track to burn onto a disc. It did before but not now and no-one seems to know the answer it appears.

I am sure the speaker issue is fine as the same occurs with hifi and PC speakers. Also I don't think the tracks are damaged as tracks added since the HD issue do it too and if that file was corrupt in any way, if I went back to the same part of the song with the issue, the crackle wouldn't be there so the file information must be there! In order to avoid 2 threads of the same thing and as this thread looks like a closed issue, I have posted the link to the current issue in order to close this one.
http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... =1&t=47932

Re: BUG#5947 now I'm getting get a crackle-bang sound

by rovingcowboy » Mon Mar 22, 2010 12:33 am

GRW wrote:I am a bit confused with this. I am using version 3.2.0.1294 and am a Gold user. I have been using this for years and getting exasperated as everytime I "fix" an issue, another rears its ugly head!

I have just started to hear a static click/pop at random points on a song. If I go back to that point, I cannot reproduce the pop. I am listening to 320kbps tracks and haven't altered any settings. Is this the same as the issue on this thread or do I need to post a new thread? If it is the same, this issue has just started as new for me as opposed to being a fixed old issue for the users in this thead.

MM is set at 89db. The equaliser is off and I am using the standard functions of the player. The only thing I have altered since this issue appeared is that I have played around with the equaliser but not getting the sound I required, I set it all back to default and switched it off. This couldn't possibly be the issue would it?

After months of altering EVERY filepath and library track after a HD failure messed it up, I WILL BE SO ANGRY if all my playlists burn with these pops on them. It will blow my car speakers up!

Please help!
pops and clicks in the songs? how close is the power wires for the cooling fans to the gray cables, them being too close might cause radio noise.
also are you using a wifi modem card and is it close by the sound card or the speaker wire hanging out of the back of the tower? i have never got pops and clicks in this computer until i put that wifi modem card in then the speaker wire is now too close and i get the pops and clicks when doing anything on the web, while playing music.

also if that is not the trouble then you might have parts of the songs missing causing little scratching sounds.
this could happen when you computer hd died and caused data to be lost by it not being able to be moved from the bad sector's when it was defraged. so when its played the song clicks and pops.
if you still have the same hd and are still using it then it might be losing sectors again on you. try doing a check disk and seeing if anything is fixed by that.

don't give up on it though. i'm still trying to figure out what cut half a song out of the song's file on my systems.
the song was listed as the proper time length but stopped half way in the song and switched to another one.
when i checked that song in the wav editor it only showed half the data the last part was just a flat line?

so strange things do happen.

Re: BUG#5947 now I'm getting get a crackle-bang sound

by GRW » Sun Mar 21, 2010 12:07 pm

I am a bit confused with this. I am using version 3.2.0.1294 and am a Gold user. I have been using this for years and getting exasperated as everytime I "fix" an issue, another rears its ugly head!

I have just started to hear a static click/pop at random points on a song. If I go back to that point, I cannot reproduce the pop. I am listening to 320kbps tracks and haven't altered any settings. Is this the same as the issue on this thread or do I need to post a new thread? If it is the same, this issue has just started as new for me as opposed to being a fixed old issue for the users in this thead.

MM is set at 89db. The equaliser is off and I am using the standard functions of the player. The only thing I have altered since this issue appeared is that I have played around with the equaliser but not getting the sound I required, I set it all back to default and switched it off. This couldn't possibly be the issue would it?

After months of altering EVERY filepath and library track after a HD failure messed it up, I WILL BE SO ANGRY if all my playlists burn with these pops on them. It will blow my car speakers up!

Please help!

Re: BUG#5947 now I'm getting get a crackle-bang sound

by theloniouscoltrane » Fri Nov 20, 2009 11:42 am

1288 seems to have fixed my problem. Thanks for the hard work, folks.

Re: BUG#5947 now I'm getting get a crackle-bang sound

by Aff » Thu Nov 19, 2009 7:40 pm

Is this the same as http://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=5873 and http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... t=flac+bug ?

Does it mean that actually
- wav files are damaged?
- flac files are corrupt when converted from wav?

If yes, is there any possibility to scan files for the corrupt data, i.e. is there a binary pattern or a string I can search for?

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