ITunes cuts off some of my songs at exactly 3 minutes 6 seconds.

I have a MacBook Pro running Mountain Lion with up to date updates. Strangely, the songs which used to play right through, now stop at exactly 3 minutes and 6 seconds. The songs also cut off when I play then through my iPhone 4 after sycing.
When I play the songs through VLC Media Player via Finder, they play right through perfectly.
I wonder whether this is a fault that's come about through one of the Mountain Lion updates recently.
I've seen a lot of posts with people's songs being cut off short but none make reference to the exact cut off time of 3 minutes, 6 seconds.
I have gone into Get Info for the songs in iTunes and specified the ending time of each song to the song's actual length but they still stop at 3 minutes 6 seconds. Most of my songs play through fine - it's just a bizarre handful.
I hope there's a workaround and would appreciate a solution.
thanks for your time.

Hello arcuspilot,
I would be concerned too if some of my songs were not playing all the way through in iTunes. Thank you for all the details you provided. You have gone through some really good troubleshooting steps already.
The next thing I recommend is checking to see if any third-party plug-ins could be causing the problem. You can find the steps to do that in this article:
iTunes: Troubleshooting issues with third-party iTunes plug-ins
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3430
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Sheila M.

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