Nasty noise beginning and end of certain 320K MP3 tracks

I have certain tracks that emit a short (~0.1s) loud burst of speaker blowing noise at the beginning and end of the file. I know the noise isn't an artifact embedded in the actual MP3 file as I can play them on other MP3 players without the noise and also I have confirmed this with a waveform viewer, thus it is being generated by LMS. I didn't rip the music so can't say what software was used. I have seen this issue mentioned sporadically over the years and after searching these posts tried everything that I have come across:
Deleting embedded artwork.
Deleting all tags except the basic artist, track and genre information.
Deleting all tags except ID3v2 tags.
Upgrading to LMS 7.8.0 didn't help.

Some clues: if I play the offending tracks one after each other I don't get the noise. I need to play a "normal" track in between two offending ones to get the noise. If I play an offending track then pause it, when I play a normal track I get the noise at the start of the track.

I am running LMS on an old laptop running Windows Vista w 2GB memory. I doubt that it is anything to do with this machine as the system is working perfectly in other respects. The duet squeezebox receiver has firmware rev 77 and is connected by the digital interface to the amp and is connected via wireless to the server.

All suggestions gratefully received (short of deleting the offending files).

Thanks,

Ian