Hi Ed,

> I have been using my Gigabeat about 2 hours a day listening to audio
books,
> and after I put a new version on it, it stalls about 10 seconds into play,
> and after bookmarking and restarting the title it will eventually play OK.
> My tracks are 192K MP3 encoded by iTunes directly from original CDs.

Which version are you running? You can find the version under the menus
System > Rockbox Info, then scroll down a few lines.

The current version (at time of posting) is r15493-071106, which seems to
work fine for me with (128kbps) MP3.

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pondlife