The caching algorithm (to explain it simply) reads the bulk of the track that you're listening to, and some of the start of the next track. This is so that if you skip a single track, there's no pause.

If you skip two tracks, it has to spin up the disk in order to get the music. This will cause the behaviour you describe.

Obviously, the caching algorithm is more complicated than that, but you get the idea.


Roger - not necessarily speaking for empeg