What is this strange sound coming from my Galaxy S5 Active when playing music?

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Strange sound coming from Galaxy S5 Active when playing music

Whenever I play music through my phone, with or without headphones, there is a sporadic noise that sounds similar to a record skipping, but more distorted. It is not the two tone beep others have posted about, nor is it the usual problem with headphones. The sound occurs in multiple audio apps. The default music player worked fine up until about a week ago (maybe two?), then the noise started. At first, a secondary app worked fine, but today that started making the noise as well. Force quitting the default app worked for a while, stopping the noise when I started the app back up, but now it goes back to the noise almost immediately. Does anyone know what this noise is or how to stop it permanently?

 

[anon(632115)]

Re: Strange sound coming from Galaxy S5 Active when playing music

Where is your music stored? If it's on an external SD card, it may be failing, or possibly too slow. If it is on an external SD card, transfer some tracks to internal storage and see if they work properly

 

[airmanotter]

Re: Strange sound coming from Galaxy S5 Active when playing music

OP here. I made an account to respond. I do have some music on an SD card, but that doesn't seem to be it. It does seem like some tracks are causing the noise and others aren't, but the problem is not split based on where the track is stored. Any other thoughts?

Additional info: I did some digging and found 2 tracks off the same album, same artist, one of which is making the noise. There was no difference in the metadata outside of what one would expect (filesize, artist, album, filename). Both are mp3, so it's not the filetype either.

 

[anon(632115)]

If you copy an mp3 to your PC does it play Ok there? I'm think, remove all mp3 and transfer to PC, reinstall or reset music app and restore media