Thanks Rob! This has been bugging me for years. I will give it a try.

I have 7800 music files (578 hours). Sometimes I want to just play them all shuffled. MM's definition of shuffle must be different than mine because with that many songs it should take over a month before it repeats a song, yet it still will play a song multiple times in a day. What am I missing ...

This doesn't seem to be associated with a particular track. It seems to be random. I will install the debug version and send the log next time it happens.

5.0.2 did not fix this issue. I haven't noticed the Exception EAccessViolation error message but it still gets stuck repeating the same few seconds of a track over and over.

MMW 5.0.1.2433 (portable mode) Win 10 20H2 build 19042.1288 Playing in shuffle mode Media Monkey plays along happily for hours then suddenly starts repeating the same 10 or 15 seconds of a song over and over. I find an error message window: Application throw an exception Exception EAccessViolation ...