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Joe_Taylor

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2018-03-20 03:55 AM

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I keep getting random audio glitches with the current version of spotify. Playback works fine, but every few seconds I'll get a random "pop" in the speakers. My headphones (which use a USB DAC) do not do this, and other programs do not to the pops either. The volume of the pops scales with the volume Spotify is set to.

I have tried reinstalling (several times), verifying that my audio driver was correct, disabling hardware acceleration, clearing the cache, among plenty of restarts.

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