Same issue. And I'm seeing it happen during thumbnail view and list view; thumbnail views are still fine and responsive even. It's the program monitor window that dies.
I'm assembling clips together, scrubbing through my source clip, dropping them in the timeline. Fine.
Double click thumbnails to open a new source clip. Fine.
I think there was audio during this clip. Click on the "Drag audio only" button to check the audio waveform. Fine, BUT!
Now the video portion of the program monitor window is frozen. No matter what I do where I go I got nothing. Even exiting the program doesn't work. I need to "End Task" to close out.
So I try again. This time avoiding the audio waveform.
All is good but I have another clip I want to check for audio. But now I have to play it normally and listen for dialogue.
Click on play...
Frozen, nothing works. Have to End Task to get out of it.
Third time through. Going though files in list view. Watching files 1 by 1, pulling clips out as needed. Try to open the next file. Suddenly frozen, not working anymore. If anything the problem happened when I clicked out of Adobe Premiere to scroll up the webpage I have in the browser on my other monitor. Click back to Adobe to watch the next file. Frozen.
This problem is making a 6 hour culling section take my entire 4 day weekend. I'm researching Adobe alternatives now because this is basically un-useable. Please fix this soon or I'm jumping ship.
PS: I tried the steps "Real Quiz" mentioned and they didn't work.