I gave up on rockbox some time ago because when I used it I could not get pause to work. It worked great on the apple firmware so I knew it was not a problem with the button. Tonight I figured out that the fade on stop/pause is set to yet. When I set this to no it worked like it should. If it was active I could hold it down and have it shutdown but that was it. I am glad that I found out what was causing the problems for me. I do not know why this is enabled by default but maybe on other players this works great.