Hi,
I have a Lenovo ThinkCentre with Linux Mint that I use to play music. Sometimes, when there’s supposed to be silence (because YouTube paused the video or something), this weird popping noise appears. It disappears whenever there’s music playing and even when I open the sound settings, but re-appears whenever there’s silence. The device is connected via aux cable to an amplifier. This happens on two separate devices.
I don’t know if it’s a Lenovo issue or a linux issue, but it’s quite annoying.
Yes, it has a crappy built in speaker. It was the first command. The second said, that the timer was set to 1.
I can’t immediately tell if that fixed the issue, unfortunately, because I don’t know how to replicate it. But this seems more plausible than a hardware issue, as it would probably be more consistent.