There can be a pause if you outrun the software's read-ahead cache. This is most likely not caused by Rjlov's kernel (although if Rjlov's stuff screwed something up, in theory it could alter the cache behavior, but I don't think he screwed anything up).

The pause is normal in cases where you skip ahead more than one or two songs. However, if the pause consistently happens every single time you hit the "next" button, then you might be looking at disk troubles where it's having a problem filling the cache. Can you give ups more details about how to induce the pause problem?

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Tony Fabris