Greetings!
Seems that over the last 2-3 builds the player exhibits pops and clicks playing MP3 files and Music CD's. Seems that playing CD's create the most pops and clicks. I have determined that it must be MJ as my other software does not exhibit the behaviour: MusicMatch 7, RealOne, WinAmp, and Media Player 7.
Jim suggested that I try playing around with the OUTPUT options and PERFORMANCE settings to see if one or all cause the problem. Seems that DIRECT SOUND makes it worse (louder) and that the default WAVEOUT lessens the effect - lower, less often. However, none of the options seem to rectify the problem. In addition, there are times that I get no pops or clicks and then suddenly "they're back..."
I did not have, or at least notice, this problem in builds 239 and lower. Seems that it surfaced with the recent builds and it REALLY was noticed when the virtual subwoofer problem was fixed.
Also, I reinsalled MJ 7 (last released version) and the problem went away. So it must be something in MJ8.
DELL 5000e Laptop with ESS Maestro sound card with upto date drivers etc.
Listening to: 'Gets Me Through' from 'Down To Earth' by 'Ozzy Osbourne' on Media Jukebox
Media Jukebox 8.0.265
CPU: Intel Pentium III 800 MHz MMX
Memory: Total - 261 MB, Free - 99 MB
OS: Microsoft Windows 2000 Workstation 5.0 Service Pack 2 (Build 2195)
Internet Explorer: 5.50.4807.2300
ComCtl32.dll: 5.50.4807.2300
Shlwapi.dll: 5.50.4807.2300
Shell32.dll: 5.00.3502.4718
wnaspi32.dll: N/A