Itunes keeps pausing

During playback of music, podcasts or videos, iTunes will frequently pause for 5-10 seconds before resuming play. This began happening two days ago and is incredibly annoying.
It's not the same as if I hit pause (the play/pause icon does not change), so it's not like a headphone jack problem (which I had on my last macbook). There is no activity in the scrubbing window while it pauses (the time does not advance), and when play resumes it's from exactly where it left off. Itunes, and the system generally, is still responsive during these pauses, and there's no obvious spike in activity in Activity Monitor. I'm running the latest versions of Mountain Lion and iTunes, and I've tried repairing disk permissions and trashing the preferences. I'm on a macbook pro with 8GB of RAM, and no other app is having any difficulty accessing the external drive my music is on; playing 1080p video off it in Quicktime works just fine. I have no idea what prompted this to suddenly start happening but if anyone has any idea how to fix it it would be very much appreciated.

This is happening for me with latest iTunes and Mavericks. It affects both audio and video. The problem has been on going for the last year at least. Anyone have any suggestions how fix this ?

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