The nimbus of the dreaded "Playback Err

Many of you have also been blessed by that wonderful message on your player --- "Playback Error". The probable root causes are shrouded in fog and not subjects of a worthy discussion by Creative. On my trusty 30 GB NOMAD Jukebox Zen NX I started experiencing them after a recent firmware update. Evidently the decoder routines were made a bit more sensiti've to various uncharted, or "gray" zones of MP3 file structure. Browsing through the appropriate forums one became the impression that I wasn't the only one to have made the same conclusion. The Zen simply experiences indigestion on certain MP3 files. At first I was completely stymied for a likely explanation, but the situation did have its own brand of comedy: the "problem" files could still be played normally by MediaSource directly from the player! That almost ruled out any form of true file corruption.
After gathering a small arsenal of MP3 tools I finally discovered that the particular files in question did have a peculiar trait, a quirk if you will. I have no idea where my good son obtained them, but they all had only an ID3 version 2 tag. Thats perfectly acceptable I think. The problem being more one of extremes; version 2 tags can formally be bloody large (up to 256MB or so I believe). The files in question had bloated version 2 tags which were over 600KB in size. To quote the help file of the very useful tool "MP3-Library": "But some software and some hardware players get problems with ID3 tags bigger than about 64 kBytes (they can not skip so much data before they find the sync-pattern of the first valid MP3-frame)". Well now, 600+ KB is definitely larger than 64KB. After massaging the version 2 tags of the problem files down to a reasonable size the Zen was able to play them normally.
I'm sure that this is most likely not the single source of "Playback Error" the Creative players exhibit, but at least it is a small and easily cureable start.

In other words, are there any limits against to play 5 videos in a media Session?

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