Alright, I've come across a really strange issue and I've been banging my head trying to figure it out. I have 3 machines. 1 Dell Dimension 4100, Pentium 3. 1 Dell 400SC, Pentium 4. 1 Dell 1600SC, Xeon. I run mpg123 0.59r on each machine. Using RH9 with a 2.4.20-8 kernel, each machine plays MoH flawlessly. As RH9 gets older and older, however, the need to upgrade arose. So I upgraded each machine to CentOS 4.3, with various 2.6 kernels ranging from 2.6.22 to 2.6.34 (yes, with the spinlock error). With these machines in this current state, the old Dell Dimension plays MoH flawlessly (the provided fpm MoH with the distro), and the two newer dells (400SC and 1600SC) all have heavy static, crackling, and other undesirable noises introduced into what I can only guess is the decoding of the MP3 files. Neither of these newer machines can transcode between audio file formats without introducing this same static using sox as well. I tried moving to native MoH, using the format_mp3 module, but found the lack of volume control to be problematic for us. Since we've been dealing with either no MoH, or moh that has undesirable qualities (too loud, some static/crackling, etc) If anyone has some ideas regarding this, I'd be happy to hear them. Then maybe Jared and Leif won't have to put up with my exasperated, repeated attempts at fixing this :)