White noise and Crackle from Audio during playback

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OrionUnas

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When I listen to music, which I do frequently, I get some sound issues. Most recently, this is what I can narrow it down to....

I was listening to an MP3 through MusicBee, and the next some was in M4A format. My speakers gave white noise, crackled, then the sound started about two seconds after the song has started.

This happens with most of my audio programs, MPC-HC, games, etc. It's really annoying.

During playback from one of my OBS game recordings also does this. When I switch a scene from [welcome] to [gameplay] it pops, white noise, crackles, white noise, crackle, etc. My audio audio will pick up when I'm midway through a sentence.

I'm using my onboard sound, from a Z87-A Asus Mobo. I've gone onto the Asus website and downloaded the latest Audio Drivers, "Realtek Audio
Audio: REALTEK HM_TUF V6.0.1.7848"

I've got windows 10, 64-bit. Any info on this annoying habit would be greatly appreciated.

 
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You probably have a bad onboard sound chip. Disable it and install a decent sound card. There are hundreds to choose from.

In the bad old days, you had to buy pro audio to get a DAC with no noise or distortion. Not any more.

By the way, MP3 is a lossy compression format. You pay less because it's damaged music. If you can hear the difference, consider buying music in FLAC format instead.
 
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Yeah, I was thinking about getting a sound card. Kind of turned off of them from a past experience, but if that seems to be the only solution.

It also happens when the music switches to FLAC also, it's really frustrating. I just haven't switched over to FLAC because a lot of the music I have isn't available on FLAC, so I'm stuck with CD studio quality :(

 
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These days, you don't have to invest a lot in sound cards because they've improved tremendously due to demand from serious gamers and home-theater enthusiasts. They're all plug'n'play and have good drivers now. I remember when you had to screw around with IRQs and line-level converters to get them working and then hope the company would update the driver when a new version of Windows came out. It wasn't fun.

Most people can't tell the difference between MP3 and CD-quality audio because they don't listen with high-quality equipment and have never learned to hear detail the way musicians and audiophiles do. I used to sell hi-fi and even though I'm old and have hearing loss I can still tell the difference.

FLAC is lossless compression that can handle different sampling rates and sample sizes, not just CD-quality audio, which is 44,100 samples/second in 16-bit samples. There are websites that sell music in high-resolution formats. I buy 96kHz/24-bit recordings in FLAC format because I have good equipment but I can't hear enough detail in higher sampling rates to justify the extra expense.
 
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