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White noise/crackling behind music in my mp3s

Some of the mp3s I have this noticeable crackling and popping white noise behind all the music, like the sound of a really old phonograph is playing in the background.
Is this due to the mp3's bad rip, codec settings or soft/hardware problems on my computer? Please help I've had this problem for ages and haven't been able to track down the problem through numerous searches =(

White noise/crackling behind music in my mp3s

Reply #1 –
Maybe with some more information we could find a solution.  Did you encode the MP3's?  If you did, what codec?  What parameters?  What are they of?  Kind of try to help us here.  Thanks.   
Nov schmoz kapop.

White noise/crackling behind music in my mp3s

Reply #2 –
When I had this problem it was because my soundcard resampled everything to 48khz

White noise/crackling behind music in my mp3s

Reply #3 –
sorry, my fault for not providing any information.
here is an example of the crackling noise that I hear on a lot of my music.
http://rapidshare.de/files/9185790/noise.wav.html
I did not encode this, but it's encoded at 128kbps and is an mp3, which is all i know.

White noise/crackling behind music in my mp3s

Reply #4 –
A program like EncSpot might help you to identify a common trait among bad sounding files that isn't shared with the good ones.
 

White noise/crackling behind music in my mp3s

Reply #5 –
Unless it is encoded at 64 kbps or lower, it is not the encoder.

Burn an audio CD out of a few such bad MP3s, having decoded them to WAV with Apollo first, to rule out software issues. If you don't hear anything wrong when playing back the CD on a standalone (or a portable) CD player, then it is your computer's hardware and/or software settings.