Lumia 820 MP3 Problem

After receiving the Black Update, my 820 has random popping and hissing sounds when playing MP3s. It's random because the popping happens at different places when replaying the same song. I also tried recording a jazz track from vinyl and encoded it in MP3 and WMA at 320 kbps and the WMA played flawlessly on the phone while the MP3 version still popped and hissed. So, I'm thinking it's a codec problem? It happens both with wired headphones and through the built-in speaker.
I've also hard resetted my phone twice. Any suggestions?

Of the 10 or so podcasts that I listen to that are recorded in MP3, all of them show signs of the audio pops. They range from 64kbps to 128kbps and are encoded by their content providers so I doubt it's an encoder problem. The video podcasts and audio podcasts encoded in mp4 that I've downloaded do not exhibit the audio pop. Either way, it would become an inconvenience to copy the MP3 podcasts to my desktop, re-encode them, and then copy them back to my phone.
Thank you both for your help. I think I'm either going to send my phone in or wait for the 8.1 update to see if that fixes it since this wasn't a problem before the Black update. I'll probably play with different encoders to see for myself, but it doesn't really solve my inconvenience at the moment. Guess I'll dust off my old ZuneHD. Thanks!

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