After a few seconds iTunes jumps to previous song.

Since a couple of days I have a severe problem with iTunes. When playing music in the music library iTunes jumps back to the previous song after a few seconds of playing the current song. Sometimes this happens half way the song but most of the times it happens after max. 10 seconds. I updated iTunes, started it in save-modus, but nothing helps. It doesn't help to make playlists, it does the same thing...
Please help!
Dianne

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