Thanx Remoc for your sound advise...I do appreciate it...the center of the problem are 2 audio files/songs that seem to ALWAYS go dead near the end... zip, zero, na'da'...I'm thinking, is it real the files? But why are there so many hits on them??? Generally I scan the files & jus' go directly to my Windows Media to listen...for the most part thingz are OKAY...