Itunes 8 - audio stops playing / buffers

hi
is anyone else having this issue? Since upgrading to itunes8 I'm getting music files suddenly pausing/stopping during playback, especially noticeable in long files such as DJ sets - at random but more often when i'm doing something else that might be considered a heavy-ish operation such as opening Adobe applications. The whole system stalls for a few seconds, sometimes beachballing for a bit, and then the song resumes as does normal operation. It's quite quick but also quite frequent and therefore frustrating.
I'm on a fast Mac Book Pro and have never had this issue before so it's not like i'm overloading my system, it should be fairly capable of playing mp3s in the background while I work
Please help

I'm having the same problem. iTunes will just pause for no obvious reason. It started the other day when I finally upgraded to 10.5. I'm on a PPC Mac Mini. It isn't pinwheeling or bogging anything like that. It really just seems to be pausing...for no reason. Go hit play again and things resume. It happens with short songs ripped from CD, iTunes purchases, Podcasts, or anything else.

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