Brief periods of silence during music playback

Hi folks,
I have an iPhone4 with iOS7.0.4 installed. Occasionally, during playback of music using the inbuilt music player, some songs will have brief periods of silence in them. It generally lasts for maybe a second? I've only started experiencing this since upgrading to iOS7.
If I 'rewind' the song and play that section again, the period of silence occurs again, in the same place.
If I reboot the phone and play the same song, the period of silence occurs again, in the same place.
If I play the song in iTunes on my computer (the one the phone is sync'd with), I don't get the pause.
If I play the song in another application on my computer, I don't get the pause.
What's going on here??

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