Audition CC: Playback works fine and then suddenly goes silent?

Question

Audition has been working fine until just now. When I hit the spacebar/play button, it will play normally for a while and then suddenly go silent. The tracker keeps moving and the timer keeps going but there is no sound. Occasionally, the sound comes back on. Also, if I pause it once it goes silent, wait a few seconds, and then hit play, it starts working again, but will then go silent later on.
Any idea what is going on?
I am using earbuds, if that helps at all.
Thanks,

Answer 1

This sounds frighteningly like a problem I had--except I described it as sounding like an old 78 record rather than tape.
What interface and driver are you using?
In my case, the problem was intermittent but gradually became more frequent.  It also occurred in Premiere Pro and, in that programme it eventually became almost every time.
In desperation, I finally tried changing the device class of my interface (an M Audio M Track) to MME and the problem immediately went away, pointing the finger very much at the ASIO drivers I'd been using.  However, these had been rock solid for ages (and not changed) so I put it down to a problem between the drivers and one of the all-to-frequent Windows "updates".
Fortunately, the latency issues of MME weren't an issue for me--I have a different interface for multitrack work.
However, the kicker in this tail is that, a couple of weeks ago (after a few more Windows updates) the problem suddenly went away (I'd also reinstalled the ASIO driver but, as I'd done that before, dunno if that played a role).
Anyway, long and convoluted, but it might be worth trying MME even if only as an experiment.  If that fixes it, a bug report to your interface manufacturer might be in order.