http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21451
--- Comment #6 from Kai Blaschke webmaster@thw-theorie.de 2010-01-27 02:26:45 --- I want to add that I've experienced client hangs since many Wine and EVE versions while _loading_ the game, even before the game window is shown. ExeFile.exe just stalls after consuming about 1 or 2 seconds of CPU time, and has to be killed. If running EVE using eve.exe, the splash screen shows, and just disappears about 30 seconds later. If you don't look into your process list, you won't notice the client is still running (only if using a virtual desktop, which then remains open).
After renaming the jukebox folder, the client starts up correctly all the time, so I'm quite sure the cause is the same.
General MP3 playing doesn't seem to be problematic, as the theme at the login screen and ambient music in missions still plays without crashing EVE.