Not that "player -i" doesn't work -- it does, and it may be the preferable way to deal with this -- but sometimes you can't readily get to a serial console, in which case, when the player powers up, pound on the skip button like a wild monkey. In many cases, you can skip the track before the player gets to the segment that makes it crash. You might have to try a few times before it works.
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Bitt Faulk