Microsoft issues fix for high-pitched noise in Windows 10
Ahead of today's announcement about Windows 11, Microsoft has issued a fix for yet another problem with Windows 10.
Earlier in the week, the company released a preview of the KB5003690 update, which primarily boosts game performance and fixes blurry text in Windows 10. But it transpires that this same update -- which is due to roll out to everyone next month -- also addresses an audio bug introduced by the KB5000842 update.
KB5003430 update is causing audio problems in Windows 10
People installing the KB5003430 update for Windows 10 are discovering that music files are becoming corrupted in certain circumstances.
The issue affects Windows 10 versions 2004 and 20H2, and it renders FLAC music files unplayable if metadata is edited. For anyone whose music collection has been borked, there is nothing that can be done to get back corrupted metadata (save restoring them from the backup you obviously have), but there is a workaround to prevent the problem from happening again, and it is possible to get mangled files playing once more.