ITunes 7.5 - major bug with playing cds! ?

when i play cds and deselect tracks, i often get spinning wheels that freeze itunes and make me force quit. it happens with both cd drives, and with a dozen different cds, all brand new.
this only happens with 7.5. if i use 7.4.2, it never ever happens. and it never happened with any itunes version before 7.5. it also happened with 10.4.8 and itunes 7.5 before i upgraded to 10.4.11.
the thing is, it only seems to happen right when i deselect the track on a cd, and usually at the very end of the track. this is quite unusual, but i've got it to reproduce very consistently.
try unchecking say, tracks 1-3 on a cd, then on track 4, uncheck it as it's playing at the last few seconds of the track, like at 2 seconds left. if it doesnt happen, re-select it and try again, and if not then leave it unchecked and try the same thing on track 5.
i cant use 7.5 b/c of this bug.
thanks

ha, yeah i see that - thank you! yours sounds like the same problem. i cant believe nobody else posted about this. it happens on every cd! and apple tech support today said they had no knowledge of this problem. the itunes techie couldnt test it out on his end b/c he said they are prohibited from having cds at work. this is insane considering that playing cds is a major function of itunes, so how is itunes tech support supposed to diagnose cd related problems when they dont have any cds!!? jeez

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