ITunes crashes when I play certain songs

After having upgraded to the latest firmware (OS 4.3.1) iTunes crashes when I try to play and sync some of my songs in my album that previously played and synced fine. The songs are encoded as .m4a at 256kbit, 44.1 kHz and are playing fine in for example Windows Media Player...
So why suddenly not in iTunes? And what can I do about this?

Try the following user tip:
iTunes for Windows 10.7.0.21: "iTunes has stopped working" error messages when playing videos, video podcasts, movies and TV shows

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