Hi, sorry its my first posting... hoping for some clues..

When I play back i get some noise at the beginning and end of the mp3...

Iim using alsa soundcard on arm-linux. but cant compile madplay --with-alsa because libasound is not found, where is that?

compiling without that flag all works except the noise at beginning and end of playback, im guessing madplay is outputing a non-raw format to a soundcard thats expecting raw?