Interesting. I've never played audio on my H5, only transferred it to a computer.

Skid Swine, post: 451315, member: 50693 wrote: My Zoom H4N skips during playback as if it has been jolted at some point (it has not).

Has this happened to you? Is there a setting to prevent this?

Curious, does it skip at the exact same spot every time?

PS, how full is the drive? Likely bad drive . Found this as a reference. Hope that helps.
http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?316457-Re-H4N-skipping-recorded-audio