Classic 160 pauseing in middle of songs

i have a classic 160 and it has started to pause for what seems like 30 seconds on a song after its been playing for a while ( about half an album). i don't think it's the mp3 cause i can restart the mp3 it pauses on and then it plays through fine. anyone know what can be causing this problem.

I have 80 gigs filled on my 160GB classic and I'm having the same problem too, so the controller/cache must REALLY suck. Such a drag... it's such a *******' device. Oh well, let's keep our fingers crossed for a firmware fix for this...

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