ITunes keeps freezing during playback on windows 8

iTunes 11.0.1.12 is freezing periodically (30-40 times per day) for up to 3-5 minutes, regardless of what I'm doing. Note, this does not happen during any specific activity, but during simple music playback. When this happening, iTunes shows in the Task Manager as "Not Responding".
My PC Specs:
OS: Windows 8 64bit
Ram: 16GB
Intel Core i7-3770KCPU @ 3.50GHz
I did not have this problem with iTunes in Windows 7. I believe that all of my settings are the same.
I have tried: elevating the process priority in Task Manager.
Running iTunes as the Administrator (program properties on shortcut).
Thanks,
Ken

Hi Kengc2,
I'm having the same problem as you.
Running
OS: Win 8 64bit
Ram: 8GB
Intel Core i7 - 2600k @ 3.5GHz
Must be something in Windows 8, as I did not have any problems with Win 7.
Having said that my itunes foldered is stored on my NAS so not sure is the slow network speed is causing the issue.
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