Wandering if any of you have ran into something like this in the past and might know how to resolve this issue. Anyway, when playing an mp3 file through any media player about 1-2 seconds into the audio track the pitch swings down and then back up a couple seconds later.

You can imagine if you are trying to do work and just want to listen to some music or whatnot this can get annoying after a few songs. This happens anywhere in the track if you try and skip ahead of the first 10 seconds of audio. So it pretty much starts wherever you decide to start the audio track.

I converted a few mp3's back to .wav files and the playback is fine so it has to be somewhere in the codecs or something. So I don't know what might be causing this.

Any help?

Jeff

What media player?
What sound card?
What OS?
What mp3 encoder?
for how long has this been going on?

Media Player: Windows Media Player 10, Media Monkey, Winamp
Soundblaster Audigy (the original)
Windows XP Home
Codec: Fraunhofer MPEG Layer-3 Audio Decoder (below copied from GSpot)

DSH 4CC FmtTag: 0x0055
FIL Company Name Fraunhofer Institut Integrierte Schaltungen IIS
DSH DirectShow CLSID {38BE3000-DBF4-11D0-860E-00A024CFEF6D}
REG Driver File C:\Program Files\K-Lite Codec Pack\filters\l3codecx.ax
FIL File Description MPEG Layer-3 Audio Decoder
FIL File Version 1, 9, 0, 0311
DSH Friendly Name MPEG Layer-3 Decoder
- - Function Decoder
FIL Internal Name L3CODECX.AX
FIL Legal Copyright Copyright © 1997 Fraunhofer IIS
REG Merit 0x00810000
FIL Original Filename L3CODECX.AX
FIL Product Name MPEG Layer-3 Audio Codec for Microsoft DirectShow
FIL Product Version 1, 9, 0, 0311
- - Type DSH

Let me know if this helps, its been going on ever since I got back from my deployment to Afghanistan. So not sure if my wife did anything crazy, she isn't too computer savy.

Thanks, D

Have you tried foobar2000? Another idea to try is going into Control Panel/Sounds and Multimedia and playing around with the sliders under Audio/Sound Playback/Advanced/Performance.