Can anyone help me diagnose where to start with my awful symptoms of sound playback. Generally the sound plays well but for some annoying pops and clicks every 10 secs approx, like a scratched record!!
My (varied) setup is:
Server: Audio files on NAS1 -O/S - FreeNAS (v. 0.69b4 Sareer (revision 3864)) Server running firefly media server (v. svn-1586)
Client Software: Using RhythmBox (v. 0.11.6) for playback using ALSA (don't how to find out version number

) and PulseAudio (Server v. 0.9.13, compiled with library version 0.9.8)
Client Hardware:
Code:
Creative Labs (v. 02:00.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs [SB Live! Value] EMU10k1X)
Client modules loaded:
Code:
lsmod|grep snd
snd_emu10k1x 18436 5
snd_rawmidi 22528 1 snd_emu10k1x
snd_ac97_codec 95264 1 snd_emu10k1x
snd_seq_dummy 6660 0
snd_seq_oss 30364 0
snd_seq_midi_event 9600 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 48576 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 10124 4 snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 42496 0
snd_mixer_oss 16896 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 65924 5 snd_emu10k1x,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 22024 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 50616 19 snd_emu10k1x,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 9416 1 snd
ac97_bus 5504 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_page_alloc 11016 2 snd_emu10k1x,snd_pcm
PA is obviously running. But I'm sure where to start - Client or Server - if it is server I will follow forums to firefly and Freenas. If Client - Hardware? or ALSA? or PA or Client Software?
Please let me know if you require anymore information
Thanks