I have a bad problem. All my FLAC files have popping noises in them. Really bad popping noises. They weren't like before. I just reformated my main hard drive and re-installed windows and winamp w/ the FLAC plugin(but my FLAC files are on a seperate HD). I also have been using an Anti-Virus program to scan all my files. What could be making my FLAC files have popping noises? I uncompressed a few of them and burned them to cd and when I play them on my cd player they are gone. When I re-installed my FLAC plugin I had to redo the TITLE format in configuration and at first I did it wrong so I got errors on all the title names in the playlist. That wouldn't corrupt my FLAC files, would it? Any suggestions of what could be causeing this?

Thank you,

-Darin

If you decompressed them and played uncompressed wav files and everything is ok, then your files are ok and the problem is with your hardware or software. Check configuration of your player, maybe bigger buffer or higher priority may help. Or maybe it can be a problem with sound card drivers. Check if this problem occur with other music files...

Sounds more like harddrive and/or cd drive running in PIO mode (standard issue with new winxp setup). Device manager / IDE controllers / set both primary & secondary IDE channels to use UDMA if available.
Do you get pops with other formats (eg. lossy formats with lower bitrate) too ?

I checked the settings and they are checked out ok(IDE, ect.). I think I might of fixed the problem...I'm late for work so I am in a rush and can't exactly tell for sure. I previousley put the Priority level on Real Time in Winamp and now I changed it back to Normal. Does that sound like it could of caused the problem?

Thanks,
-Darin

You mean process priority class ? Changing that is generally a bad idea, except for some rare cases; normal settings are most safe. If you use Winamp, you could try reinstalling it and using default settings.

Yeah, it was defintlt the priority class. I put it back to normal and everything sounds fine. Thanks for helping! Whew


-Darin

It's the greed for sound accuracy that caused the trouble and so did your wanton use of nice hard disk space when the rest of the world is begging for it. Murphy's laws took control. Your greed for accuracy and lossless reproduction resulted in the most amount of loss. Thou shall not covet your neighbor's archive.

zZ... > Sounds more like harddrive and/or cd drive running in PIO mode (standard issue with new winxp setup)...

That has my gears turning. On (2) brand new Dells (2.56 GHz P4's) w/ W2k, and playing an audio CD thru Foobar or WMP, playback would pop every time the RW drive was accessed. Regardless of which playback mode was used, I couldn't get rid of it. Now I have something to check...cool!

xen-uno