when i try to play something of this quality, i cuts in and out in a pulsing pattern. is there a way to fix this?

$ amarok --version
Qt: 3.3.7
KDE: 3.5.8
Amarok: 1.4.7

$ uname -a
Linux automan-desktop 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

same here...
24bit flac works as u described
i heard it's got something to do with the way flac works in newer encoder versions...
will this be fixed in 2.0 version?