20 seconds from end of song, sometimes a "click"

I am hearing a single "click" which happens apparently at random, about 0% of the time, when I play a song. The click always happens precisely 20 seconds from the end of a song, if it happens at all. It can happen with any song from the MP3s on my hard dri've. I never had this problem until I installed Vista. It can play a song fine on one pass, then click the next time I play it. Or not. It's random, for all I can determine. It's also driving me nuts.
I have X-Fi Platinum on Vista 32 bit. Newest driver from Creative is installed: (SBXF_PCDVT_LB_2_5_0004)
Please save me from the annoying click... I'm totally stuck for what to do.
Lisa

You're using Windows Media Player, I presume?
That's a result of the Visualization. If you change it to no visualization the click will magically disappear.
A way to get both visualizations and no click is to install the latest version of Winamp. To get good sound on it, copy the dsound.dll from the Creative Alchemy folder to the Winamp program folder. In Winamp options, output plugins, direct sound output plugin, check to enable hardware acceleration and on the other tab there check to enable cpu frequency scaling.
Run the Winamp visualizations and there's no click.
I just got used to the click as I kind of like the visualizations in Windows Media Player. I alternate between that and Winamp for my mp3 listening.
Oh, I forgot. Run Winamp as an administrator all the time until they come out with an updated version that can get along with UAC. It's got to write to the Programs folder and the registry to save its settings and things. I just right clicked the winamp shortcut and on the compatiblility tab for both all users and the current user clicked run as administrator. I did the same thing to the winampa.exe in the Winamp program folder. You'll just get a UAC prompt whenever you open Winamp. Not a big deal until they design a hook into UAC so it'll ask permission for that stuff.
Message Edited by Eck on 03-6-2008 06:7 PM

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