jLayer -- Playing mp3 causes distortion at start of file - java

I'm using jLayer 1.0 to play a simple mp3 file. It works fine apart from the first 3 seconds or so (adding 5 seconds of silence to the start of the track fixes the issue). This is the code I'm using:
try
{
final Player player = new Player(getClass().getResourceAsStream("1.mp3"));
new Thread()
{
public void run()
{
try
{
player.play();
}
catch (Exception e) { System.out.println(e); }
}
}.start();
}
catch (Exception e)
{
System.out.println("Something went wrong!");
System.out.println(e);
}
I'm probably doing something stupid (I'm pretty sure I don't need to put the thread in the try block anyway) but it does play apart from the distortion.
Audio sample of distortion: http://www.filedropper.com/broken
Original track: http://www.filedropper.com/dennyschneidemessermodernwarstory
Music by: denny schneidemesser (by-nc-nd)
Any idea of what is is going on?

Issue completely fixed after updating to v1.0.1.
The version hosted on this page:
http://introcs.cs.princeton.edu/java/faq/mp3/mp3.html
Is outdated.

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