Importing CD's to itunes locks up computer

Recent acquired ipod and loaded all software. When I began to import by CD's to itunes the procedure got to the import screen, started to import the first song and after about 3 seconds, locked up the computer and did nothing. I could not exit itunes, no features of itunes worked and the only way to exit was to turn off the power to the PC. This happened at random, as some CD's imported ok, many did not. No error messages were displayed. The PC just locked up. Any ideas?

I found a work around. Rip songs to Windows Media Player. Go to WMP and open folder with songs. Click on each song and select "Open With" and select ITunes. Songs will import to Itunes, but with no Info. Go to Itunes, select each song and change the Info of Title, Album, Track and Genre. Do not erase song from WMP as iTunes will require that as the source. When updating iPod, these "imported" songs will import just fine with all the correct info.

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