Double Skip of Audio at Playback Start

Question

Can anyone elucidate why, on my PowerMac G4, tracks in iTunes don't start playing clean, but rather drop several seconds of audio (in two installments), before "settling" into the track? The tracks are fine and will start "clean" from the rewind button, but from full stop, I always get this glitch when starting a track. Quicktime will play these files without a problem.
Any help appreciated.
Power Mac G4 MDD   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

Answer 1

I am having the same problem. This same issue occurred a while back when they moved to the first CC version and it was maddening. I was in contact with text support about it and they were aware of it. They finally came out with a fix, but for some inexplicable reason, it's back.
Makes editing timelines very difficult, takes multiple passes to see how something is coming together when it randomly just out and you can't have the director or client look at it, cause they can't hear it!
There was a somewhat effective work around that improved but not removed the issue until the path came out. Go into the preferences in audio hardware and reduce the buffer size. That helped a little. not as much cut out not as often, but it still happens. Adobe claimed it was an issue with the graphics card of all things.
Anyway, I am having the issue as well and hope Adobe will issue another fix soon. Rather maddening to have the big fixed only to have it surface again after they fixed it previously.
iMac (27-inch, Mid 2011), 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7, 24 GB 1333 MHz DDR3, AMD Radeon HD 6970M 2048 MB running Yosemite.