Welcome to Sansa clip! Get used to this buddy. I’ve had three and they all have weird problems like this. You will occasionally be annoyed and sometimes rather frustrated, but there’s nothing you can do because you own a Sansa clip (+).
There’s one other thing that can cause this, a corrupted music file. Keep an eye out for a particular album or group of songs that you may play, and see if it freezes on the same group. You may need to delete that song and reload it.
thanks alot for all you guys advice on the matter !
started out with resetting the player, and then started it up. fiddled around with it for probably a minute without it crashing. lol. i guess thats a good start.