So you checked the file size and date and nothing has changed - so that's my decompression/recompression theory out the window - so all that leaves is perceptual illusion. Have you recently listened to high quality (CD) versions of the same tunes?
I suppose if you're getting skips and clicks it could be that you're processor is being overworked and decompression is being interupted by other processes. The original file wouldn't have changed though. The pops/skips/clicks would't be in the same place each time though - it would depend on what you were doing. Are you running loads of other stuff at the same time on a relatively slow system?
In Winamp under Options > Preferences > Plugins > Output > Nullsoft waveOut you can adjust the Priority that Winamp processes are assigned. Do you get less pops/clicks/skips when it's set to "Time Critical"? Have you changed this recently? I have mine set to "Highest" which is 2nd from top.
Last edited by stagger; 20th April 2002 at 09:05.