Sorry about that. The version I have is the most recent stable version (1.1.13), which I upgraded to from 1.1 on the 9th of August. These issues started while I was still using 1.1. Specifically, what I was trying to do was listen to music, but the player would seize up, display the "expanding wave" in the oscilloscope view, then resume playback sometime after. While the expanding wave is displayed, the player is entirely unresponsive. The only things that happened at around the same time was that I installed Rainmeter and Rocketdock to gussy up my desktop, but even after exiting and removing the programs, the issue persists. It seems more prone to choke on longer songs (Rush's "2112", The Mars Volta's "Cygnus... Vismund Cygnus", Between the Buried and Me's "White Walls", etc.). It's also very unpredictable, sometimes not giving any problems at all, and other times stalling every 5 seconds. OS is Windows 7 64-bit, the majority of my music library is in FLAC, and my components are:foo_albumlist foo_cdda foo_converter foo_ui_std Core foo_rgscan foo_dsp_std foo_input_std In addition, I also had these ones before I removed them due to the possibility of them being the problem: foo_gep (Game Emu Player, plays music files ripped from video games) foo_audioscrobbler (Last.fm connection) I'm not entirely sure what the last request entails, but I'm listening through headphones using the Primary Sound Driver device, with a buffer length of 2900ms. As for the power setting issue, the display is set to shut off after 10 minutes, but if my computer is left alone long enough to have the monitors shut off, then I'm not listening to music anyway. EDIT: I've just updated to 1.1.14b3, and nothing has changed.