Dr. Horrible killed my sound card.
I was about five minutes into Act Two tonight when the audio started to crackle—not a great thing at any time, but especially not for a musical. I restarted the browser: crackle. Logged out and in: crackle. Rebooted: clear! but then, more crackle. Rebooted again.
Nothing.
Reloaded the drivers. Nothing.
Reconfigured the audio daemon. Nothing.
Rebooted.
Rebooted.
Rebooted.
Zip. Zilch. Nada.
Curse you, Dr. Horrible! Why did my poor, defenseless little onboard sound card have to die, just to put you over the top for the Evil League of Evil? What other nefarious plans do you have for unsuspecting hardware whose only crime is playing back free internet musical miniseries?