pops or clicks in wav file

[johnsees]

I don't know the right terminology, so bear with me please. I've got a wav file (music) that has really bad clicks or pops or "scratches" that really make the file unusable. (You couldn't possibly enjoy listening to this. It's not that there's a ton of them, it's just that they're so loud.) On a wav editor, they're shown as vertical lines that go all the way to the top and bottom of the editor display, and they're too loud to be acceptable.
I've tried the wav editor in Nero and also in Exact Audio Copy, and their various click/pop/noise reducers don't have much of an effect, but that may be because I don't know what I'm doing!
Can anyone give me some advice on how to reduce this stuff so the file is usable?
Thanks a lot.

EDIT: I think I'm asking the wrong question. The audio file came from a home-made DVD. The DVD does NOT have the pops! I used Streamclip to demux the DVD to m2v and ac3 and then used Nero to burn the ac3 to CD. What created the pops?
Thanks again.

[yoda313]

I think audacity has some filters in it - it's free to use it so no loss in trying.

I have used a software called cakewalk pyro. It worked great on cleaning up some old record transfers that had pops in them. Sounded great after the cleaning. That is pay software though.

[redwudz]

Does the deuxed AC3 from the original DVD have the same problem? Then you said you burned the AC3 to CD. Where did you create the WAV audio?

This all sounds like a conversion problem, not a click problem. Perhaps more details on the AC3>WAV conversion?

[johnsees]

Yeah, you're right redwudz. If I weren't having such a crappy day, I'd have thought of that myself.
I found that the original ac3 file (from Streamclip) does NOT have the pops. The CD I burned with Nero does have the pops, so Nero caused them, but I have no idea why. So I just need another plan.

By the way, this is what I did and why:
The DVD is a cartoon which contains songs. My wife wants the songs without the dialogue. I wanted to use a wav editor to get the songs from the soundtrack, so after burning the CD with the whole soundtrack (the ac3 file) I ripped it back into the computer with musicmatch, which created the wav file. It sounded very simple and I had all the tools to do it, but I guess I need a ac3>wav converter instead.

Thanks for your help.

EDIT: Well, I'm thoroughly confused! I used HeadAC3he to convert the ac3 to wav. and the wav has the pops in it! What's up with this? In the ac3, there is a VERY slight "something" at the place where the pop occurs in the wav. The "something" is so minor that I didn't even notice it before. It's more like an ABSENCE of sound than a pop, like a slight "hole" in the sound that gets converted to a huge pop in the wav file.

[Soopafresh]

If your audio card supports it, you can record with one program while you play the AC3 file back with another. Crude, but it'll work.

[johnsees]

Problem solved! I don't know why the ac3 that Streamclip produced had problems when it was converted to wav, but I used Ac3Tool to extract the ac3 from the vob, and when it converted to wav, it was clear as a bell.

Thanks for the responses folks.

[scott20]

You may go with FlexiMusic Wave Editor, its having some filters to remove the pops and clicks.

[thecoalman]

It's called clipping if you want to look it up, not whole lot you can do with it. You can lower the amplification and smooth it over but all you're really doing is polishing a turd. The original sound is lost and can't be recovered.