I just did an experiment with Windows 98.  Using Windows Media Player, if I
stopped playing something in the middle of a sound, it would start the next song
with a distinctive pop (either flushing a buffer or else it is setting the
output DAC from its last output value to the first output value of the next
song).  If I stopped the Windows Media Player (or let it finish) at a silent
spot in the music, I have no pop playing the next song.  I believe that this is
more likely to cause the pop rather than a strange bug in lame that only affects
the beginning of songs.

Doug Wood

Ben Tucker wrote:

> On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Robert Hegemann wrote:
>
> > David wrote:
> > > Hello All,
> > > Has anyone else had the problem of a small pop at the beginning
> > > of playing an encoded file?  I am just curious if it is a known problem.
> > > -David Swigger
> >
> > Hi David,
> > first of all we need to know what you did.
> >
> > Did you use an old version of Lame?
> > What are your Lame settings?
> > What kind of player do you use? (maybe winamp, what version?)
> > Is this small pop in the original wave? (could be the ripper)
> >
>
>   Hey, I have this problem too.  My *impression* is that the pop is
> from lame, 3.57 or 3.58 currently, I grab with leech under OS/2, and
> have encoded hundreds of songs, using tompg/2 and l3enc.  Never had
> the pop before, but another variable is a newer, faster, less reliable,
> CDROM drive.  I will try a few CDs tonight, to verify lame is, or is
> not, the source of the pop.  I have used -b 128, and recently started
> using -v -b160.  My prefered player is warpamp (b4?), but we have
> winamp in the house, too.  Thanks for any insight...
> ---ben
>
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