No, it seems to happen on uncompressed 16-44.1khz files, which are coming in from a server. It does not happen on mp3's. Ctrl-p does not help, instead I get the 'media center 17 is not responding' message, and the cursor is a swirling circle (win 7's 'wait' cursor).
If I force quit, it seems OK, but MC 17 will not restart because some process is apparently still running. So last night I did a force quit of mc 17, but did not reboot, and this morning it had a blue screen.
I just got it to happen again, by clicking the pause/play button a couple of times in rapid succession, while playing an uncompressed aif from the server.
Incidentally, I've done a lot of audio driver programming (I did an mp3 player for the apple newton, and ported it to windows ce back in the 1990's), so I have a sort of ingrained curiosity to try and diagnose this problem.
Thanks,
Bruce