ITunes Skipping like a CD

I looked around in the community before posting this and no one has seemed to answer this or fix it.
This started happening recently. Songs that never skipped before are acting like a scratched CD. It's not the songs, because they play fine in finder. I don't have anymore programs open then I normally have. I usually keep safari, tweetdeck, x-chat and adium open all the time. When I'm working or cleaning the house I have iTunes open and it has never had an issue playing songs correctly. I don't know if it's a recent update or what, but I'm really getting annoyed with iTunes skipping on all of my music.
I have more then enough memory to run iTunes.

Hello again, Crystal.
Thanks for the update on your issue. Due to the nature of your issue you may find more information by using another one of Apple's support resources - https://getsupport.apple.com/GetproductgroupList.action to get a more hands-on response.
Cheers,
Pedro.

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