When I try to play an .mp3 file I get continuous popping & crackling. If I play a video with audio, all works fine. I also have this problem playing You tube videos online. Is this a known issue and is there a fix ?
Here is the sound card I have :
*-multimedia
description: Audio device
product: NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1b
bus info: pci@0000:00:1b.0
version: 01
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=0
resources: irq:45 memory:f9000000-f9003fff
Thanks
Edit: found the solution
A possible solution is disabling "auto-mute" in alsamixer. It is used when the "switch-to-headphone-and-back-again" bug occurs (in high volumes mainly).
- First, open your terminal, or press CTRL+ALT+t
Then, type the command below and hit
Enter:alsamixer
You will get something like this:
- Now press the respective Arrow key(
->or<-) till you find auto mute option and disable it.
Crackling will now disappear.
