LinuxMusicians

The popping is on the onboard audio (ALC887-VD).

I turned down my webcam audio input, it's the only one that shows up in the settings. I still get the popping sound.

I don't have anything plugged to the audio in.

I'm just using the onboard audio. I'm not using the HDMI audio.

Although not directly related, before launching myself into Linux audio I want to first try and suss out this problem. I am experiencing a crunchy popping sound every so often on YouTube videos played in Mozilla Firefox 58.0.2 (64 bit). I recorded the sound internally using "Audio Recorder"...

OK, thanks. I installed qjackctl.

I didn't install it, so I'm not sure it's even on my machine. When I check the software manager for "jack" there are loads of packages "jackd", "jackd2" etc, which package should I install?

I just installed Patchage in Linux Mint and I get the error "jack: unable to create client".

I have some C++ code for a stand alone synthesiser program that I wrote a while ago to work on Windows 7 / MFC. I no longer have the machine or the Visual Studio compiler. Now I have a machine running Linux Mint I would like to try to convert the program and perhaps develop it. The main interaction ...