Hi.

I've recently switched to Monkey's Audio as my method of compressing my music. I'm very pleased with it... it sounds wonderful on foobar2k.

But I recently upgraded to .5, and - sometimes - I can detect faint, almost-not-there clicks/pops at regular intervals. This doesn't always happen. I'm having a very tough time pinpointing what causes it. It seems to happen if I have lots of programs running; but it didn't happen with .43, and I have quite a bit of RAM (1024MB) so I don't think that's the problem.

If I close foob2k when I detect it, then re-open and re-play, it's usually gone.

In fact, it's usually triggered by a certain .ape file ... or a few certain ones, actually. I have no idea what it is about those files that causes it.

I haven't yet noticed it in MP3s.

Any ideas what it could be?

- Chris

Edit: Soulseek seems to aggravate the problem. But it never happened with .43 ...

Edit again: it happens with MP3s, as well, so the problem isn't limited to Monkey's Audio. I think I'll go back to .43 for now.

This may sound simple, but have you tried increasing the length of the output buffer?

No, didn't try that. But I didn't change it from the size I was using in .43, which didn't cause any problems.

I upgraded to .51a, and that seemed to fix the problem, I think. Guess my computer didn't like .5 ...

- Chris