Originally Posted By: canuckInOR

If WMA plays immediately, but MP3 takes a long hit before first play, perhaps it's a codec issue? It's as though the DLL is taking a long time to load, but once it's loaded, it's fine.

Yes, and I actually had similar issues a while back, now that i think about it, after installing Win7Codec (http://shark007.net/).
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