[nttdemented]

Well I for one use my Diamond as a music player every day with large 100mb+ 128-320kbps MP3s (listen mostly to long electronic music mixes) and have only ONE issue that isn't related to what is being mentioned here.

The only issue I've noticed, both on stock Sprint ROM and on Juicy's 2.4.1+, is if while playing music you unplug the audio adapter and plug it back on after playback resumes, the volume shoots up drastically. Easily fixed by unpluging the adapter, pausing playback, pluging the adapter back in and resuming playback. I've never noticed weird poping noises or pauses, and I drive A LOT, heck I only use the music player in the car.

Other observations I can offer with the TF3D player is that when I was on Sprint's ROM and the phone started a data connection (for example, Active Sync connecting to sync) playback would pause completely and I'd have to unlock the phone, and resume playback. This hasn't been apparent since I switched to custom ROMs. Currently on Juicy's 2.6 with no playback issues exept for the one I mentioned above.