Zen V Plus stops playing

Hi everyone,
nice forum New to it.
Allright, to the subject. I recently bought a zen v plus 8gb. I noticed that sometimes while listening to music on it, it sometimes just stops playing. Like its paused. But on screen it still says its playing (the play icon is still on), but the playtime is stopped to. anyone have any ideas?
Greetz and thanks in advance,
MTFDarkEagle?

I have the exact same problem. It happens if you listen to a track and press back to either rewind or skip back to a previous track. The second playthrough will "pause" at some point requiring you to press the play button to make it resume. It is quite an annoying glitch which I have yet to find a solution for. The last (very outdated) firmware doesn't address the issue and every topic I have seen regarding the problem seem to go unresolved. I can certainly li've with it, but it will be the last time I ever buy a Creative MP3 player.

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