Now that's very interesting, especially the audio deadlock while still responding to commands. By that do you mean that menus etc. still worked? If you try to play something from the menus, does it play, or stay stuck at 0:00? Was there any specific thing you could do to provoke it?

I've seen this behavior before when the player could not read from the second disk due to a cable problem. The player would continue to function correctly but the music would stop playing.
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