CD skips or sticks when playing in iTunes

Does anyone know a solution to this problem. When using iTunes to play a CD sometimes a song will stick, skip a few seconds, or stop playing and iTunes will stop. When playing the same disc and song with Windows Media Player on the same machine it will play the entire song with no problems. How can this be fixed?

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