Sorry... guess I should have given a little more info.
Anyway... the playlist has just over 1000 songs on it.
Small lists, like a random 1 hour audio, seem to work on a more consistent basis. Not everytime... but it's still beta, so I wasn't sure what to expect.
Originally, I added all the mp3's to the media library and created the playlist from that. Since then I have also exported that same playlist to m3u and tried "Playing" it from the right click menu in explorer.
If I right click on the playlist in MC and tell it to "Play" this will happen everytime. At this point MC locks up and I have no idea if they show up in Playing Now or not. If I tell it to add to "Playing Now" it happens slightly less than always.
The player window doesn't really say much of anything. The screen just freezes. If I bring another window in front and try to go back to MC I can't. It won't respond to anything I've tried.
If I select say the first 6 tracks in the playlist and try to add them to Playing Now it does the same thing.
Yep.
Would it make any difference if I mapped a drive the share vs. using the UNC?
I think that's everything... let me know if there is anything else I can try.