Crackling sound about player

[sebastiaanluca]

Try executing aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav -v -V mono on the command line of your Pi and check if it also makes such a noise. I have the same issue, but it's just the Pi that has bad analog audio output (I just purchased a $10 USB to audio convertor, should fix it).

[faulkiebear]

By default the pi starts with its volume at level zero. Its sounds crackly because the noise floor is playing at the same volume as the track you're playing. If you google how to turn the output volume up that will fix it. I was actually very impressed with the sound quality of my pi 2B... After i got it working properly. I even decided not to buy a dedicated DAC because i cant hear anything wrong with the integrated sound output even when playing through my fancy KRK monitors.