I have been trying to understand a problem I have had for a while:
I have 5 zones. I put all music in the 1st zone and let it play randomly. I have one zone with a few albums in it for party music, one for music we listen to in our pool room, one that my wife can program to her liking and one for me. All zones can play continuously, as the outputs are actually turned on and off by our Audio Access system. So, in short, Media Center is continously playing as many as 5 zones worth of music at all times, day and night.
The problem is that one zone locks up occasionally. This is almost always the "all music" zone. When it happens, that zone stops playing, but the play/pause button is still in the play mode (ie, it shows a pause symbol). Hitting the button does nothing. The only way to get the zone going again is to select another song in the playing now list, hitting the next song or previous song buttons, or double clicking (reselecting) the current song in the play now list.
I thought that when I updated to the current release the problem went away, but it is happening again, more frequently now that I connected netremote. Without netremote and before I updated, it would go up to a couple of days, at most before locking up. After the update to latest version, it went about 5 days before I started testing with netremote. After running netremote, it happens in less than a day.
Any ideas?