Switching Tracks in Rhythmbox Causes Popping Noise? [solved]

A friend and I recently installed Arch on a spare computer and really liked it, but we had a problem with the sound that was really annoying that we couldn't figure out how to fix. We followed the alsa wiki instructions and were able to get the sound working good for programs like Mplayer and Audacious, but Rhythmbox caused a loud scratching/popping noise when switching to different songs. Does anyone have any ideas as to what may have caused this, and ways it might be fixed?
Thanks!
Last edited by oksana (2007-08-19 04:16:23)

I don't use rhythm box, but I had a similar issue with amarok a while ago with songs that had been encoded with album art in their tags. My issue was specifically iTunes encoded mp3s, but IIRC others reported the same issue with other programs, including easytag. Stripping album art from all tags fixed the issue - frankly, I don't need album art attached to my music anyhow. If you're talking about CD's, then I have no idea what the issue might be.

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