Crackling sound or audio anomaly occurs when computer enters or exits sleep or hibernation state while Windows 8 Music App is playing

This issue occurs because the Windows 8 Music app continues to play the audio file when the system enters into or resumes from sleep or hibernation. The initiation of the sleep/hibernation process causes CPU utilization to increase while Windows saves critical data prior to fully entering the sleep/hibernation state. During this period of increased CPU utilization, the audio playing in the Music app is deprioritized resulting in some of the streaming audio packets being dropped and causing the audio anomaly or crackling noise.