First song on every cd skips.

Every CD I have imported to my iTunes collection skips on the first song, every single one skips at the four second mark. Playing the CD's in a CD player shows no sign of this hiccup, can anyone tell me how to fix this? The songs I buy from iTunes are fine, but the ones in collection, the first song of every CD anyway, is screwed up.

Don't know why it didn't work the first time, but I went back and individually selected a song that was skipping and "converted it to AAC". Works now, thanks for the idea.
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