I-tune pauses during play

Whenever I play a song or a pod cast I-tunes will pause during play for about 30 seconds or so and then pick up where it left off. How can I stop this from happening?

do you have iTunes running off an external hard drive by any chance? i had this problem on my powerbook because i had too many programs running at the same time and not enough RAM.

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