I was listening to a song on my shiny new mini. But something was not right: there was some kind of "static" (like listening at badly tuned radio) on the drum beats. The funny thing is, I never noticed it before.

The file has always been the same. I simply transferred it from my library to the iPod and found this issue.

The song info is:

With Him (4:44)
Babyface
Face 2 Face

Kind: AAC audio file
Size: 4.4 MB
Bit Rate: 128 kbps
Sample Rate: 44.100 kHz
Volume: -3.7 dB
Profile: Low Complexity
Channels: Stereo
Encoded with: iTunes v4.0, QuickTime 6.2


Any idea what could have happened?

Here you can listen for yourself:

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=29837

Can you reproduce the problem if you encode from CD again?

That's some pretty horribly distortion, especially in the left channel.