Why is there always a popping and clicking sound when I play or record sounds of music, no matter what media player or recorder I use. Is there a way to silence them?

Computer x-pert who knows nothing about computers

Not easy to say without hearing what you mean.

Try turning your speakers down a bit then increasing the volume from your media player instead. The wrong balance between these two can highlight interference and this will help if your speaker amplifier is trying to deal with a weak signal.

It could be overload, in which case reverse the process I gave above.

DerekW

If you actually have 56MB of RAM, that means you have probably have 64MB of RAM and the video is sharing some of that.

You might also have an onboard sound card. On older computers the onboard sound is usually pretty cheap.

Do some investigation on your computer. An extra 64 MB of RAM should be really cheap.

A better PCI sound card like a Creative Labs SBLive, model #s CT4830, CT4780, CT4870, CT4760 could be had for cheap on Ebay or elsewhere on the Web.

Those 2 thingies should upgrade your audio experience and cost you less than $30 USD combined.

Thanx to you both, Direk and Doug. My system is 6 years old with no upgrade and came probably with a 'standard' soundcard, which means a cheap one, I guess. I've learned from some guys it has lot to do with the RAM but they were suggesting a much bigger one of at least 512mb, so I guess I have no choice but go for a RAM upgrade, and maybe a soundcard change as well.

Computer x-pert who knows nothing about computers