http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24512
--- Comment #1 from Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com 2010-09-24 13:33:06 CDT --- Seems disabling the ingame jukebox works around it. Two ways to do so: A) rm / mv $PROGRAMFILES/CCP/Eve/res/audio/Jukebox B) disable winemp3.acm in winecfg/WINEDLLOVERRIDES
you obviously lose ingame mp3 support, but the game then doesn't hang. According to some AppDB reports, the game starts and continues with the normal music, then about 3 seconds or so in transitions to the first track in the jukebox, which is about when it hangs...
Those same mp3's play fine in, e.g., foobar2000 under Wine.
I'll attach a +mpeg3 trace.