[PROBLEM] White noise occurs at random while playing

[hjheins]

I don't know if this applies to streaming. But FWIW- I had an issue with white noise occurring occasionally between songs on my SSD. Determined that it was happening when mixing FLAC and MP3 files in a play list. Set the SoX resampling to match my FLAC tracks and the problem went away. Also converting the MP3s to FLAC worked.

My Klipse Powergate  DAC/Amp was the problem.

thank you for this. I actually suspected this as well, however, the problem seems to occur more frequently while playing radio streams; usually mp3 as far as I can see. When playing local songs, the issue does sometimes occur, but less frequent. The "solution" was to pause, and start playing again. It almost feels like the audio stream decoding goes "off the rails"  somehow/somewhere. I have played with the resampling, but I never found a setting that helped here.