Background ambient looping sound, always POPS when restarting... WHY?

The subject says it all. I’m using an ambient spaceship type sound for my background. I drag the mp3 file from my library onto the stage and have it loop. But whenever it loops I hear a pop… happens every time with every different sound effect I try… can anyone help?

the easy way would be to open the sound file in some audio editing software (cooledit, etc.) and fade in/out the first and last 0.1 seconds.

What you are hearing is what happens when the waveforms don’t line up.

like:

/////|end - start|_////

it should be:

/////|end - start|////

What I normally do is zoom right in on the beginning and the end, and clip them at the point where they cross over the ‘zero’ line.

I know this isn’t the best explanation in the world, but hopefully you’ll get my meaning.

Okay that helps thanks. I was actually trying to do something like that in Cool Edit Pro but I didn’t get thats specific… I’ll try that, thanks.

my pleasure