[PROBLEM] White noise occurs at random while playing

[Tim Curtis]

I have newly installed a raspberry pi that is connected to a digital amplifier over usb from version 7.x to version 8.2.5
However, since I did so, I get very loud white noise seemingly at random while playing music.
It seems to happen especially often when playing ambient sleeping pill radio.
The remedy is to pause and start playing again.
however it is very annoying, and it did not happen in version 7
I tried to find infos in the logs, in dmesg and in moodutl -l, but there is no sign of anything being amiss in any of them.
How can I go forward in solving this?

thanks,

Hendrik-Jan

The symptom suggests some sort of hardware issue.

With hardware issues usually the only way to isolate the problem is to perform swapping for example connect the Pi to a different audio device or try a different USB cable. Something like that.