Wireless Music playback interruption - High Bit R

I'm having a problem with sporadic playback interruption with my SoundBlaster Wireless Music player.
I have the current firmware and drivers. I'm using WMA files which I have ripped using a high bit rate.
Does anyone have any idea if this high bit rate can contribute to the playback interruption?
Thanks.

If you registered with a good email address Jeremy (CL moderator) might be able to email you a patch that he has made available through email in the past to address the high bit rate issue. I also found if you're running on XP you can set the priority of SBWMsvr.exe to high using Windows Task manager and it seems to correct the problem.
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