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Hi
I Just Had To reinstall all my stuff on another pc as my old one died.
Problem
i am in the testing phase befre i install my DAW ,
windows audio(youtube ,media player etc ) the Audio has loud crackles and a kind of aliasing sound complete dropouts while watching youtube videaos.
What i have done thus far
looked for conflicts videeo card etc
reinstalled latest vvideo card driver (AMD radion rX 460)
looked at and followed the MOTU sugestions for power management for usb settings
and a lot of other minor things i normally do after a clean windows install
NOTHING WORKS
Plaese somebody help me out here i am losing my mind
TY
Tony

I'm not really sure I have enough to go on from what you posted, but I'll take a stab at couple things. My suggestions are based on _my own_ experiences, and problem solving for issues I was having.

I experienced similar audio issue at one time. A few things that I came across (and I've posted about them here, possibly)

Sample rates were getting changed by Windows (10) any time I restarted the PC or turned it on for the first time. 2 different PCs did exactly the same thing. This would cause stutters, crackles, or no audio at all. I required my stuff to be running at 48K, and often would find Ins and Outs randomly changed to 44.1. I got in the habit of checking this every time I fired up my PC or rebooted. When I expanded to 24 ch In and Out, this became a real headache having to check every device pair , both ins and outs, every single time. I started disabling devices in Sound Manager to see if it was always the same devices. It was not. If I left something disabled the issue "might" show up on another pair.

One evening after I had corrected the sample rate issue I fired up my DAW (Studio One 6) and the answer was right in front of me. As S1 initializes, it loads devices, including the MOTU Audio driver. Bingo. I didn't NEED the devices enabled under Windows at all, as S1 would call the driver and everything worked great.

This was fantastic, until I wanted to do something OUTSIDE of S1... as the driver wasn't loaded and Windows didn't have any hardware to use. My workaround for Windows audio was to install Voicemeeter Banana and configure that to pass "regular" Windows audio sources from the computer.

Since doing this (and it didn't come to me overnight) I have had NO audio artifacts, crackles, or other issues that I had previously experienced.

I hope this spurs you to dig a little more.

S~