It happens to me every time. I'm running the latest Hijack kernal if that matters, however I am still running 2.0b13 (I think) so that could be the issue?. The WMA's are encoded VBR w/ the bitrate ranging from 135 to 215Kbps

Its frustrating because I'll go to turn up the volume for example, and it doesn't do anything so I turn it up more and still nothing, then about 5 seconds later my ears are bleeding