Playing specific (and seemingly random) files causes Play to hang indefinitely

[brooks]

I've been running into the following issue quite frequently now. I'm running Version 0.3.1b (1105). Here's the scenario:

I add music files to my play queue. They all load fine. They all display fine. Playback will begin, and will be fine -- until I reach a "problem file". When playback of a "problem file" starts (either because it was next in the queue, or I selected it to start manually), nothing happens. The progress bar remains at 0:00 and there is no output. The major issue, is that when I try to play any subsequent file afterwards, the same thing happens. The queue updates to the newly-selected-file-for-playback, but the progress bar remains at 0:00 and there is no output. The only fix it to quit Play and reopen it. The same file will repeat the behavior.

I believe there is something in specific music files (happens for both FLAC and mp3s) that Play incorrectly reads/interprets. Finding a "problem file" is somewhat random, because I don't know what's in the file that causes Play to display this behavior. But once I find one of these "problem files", the behavior can be seem 100% of the time, and is therefore quite easy to repeat.