ITunes lockup on song change

Whenever iTunes changes a song - and this happens whenever iTunes is opened and has played at least a couple of songs, iTunes locks up for a few seconds [and it won't matter how I change the song whether it's by iTunes or the iPod touch Remote app] and then it changes the song. It gets frustrating whenever this happens. Any idea as to why it might be locking up like that?

This is covered on page 159 of the manual:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/enUS/iPhone_UserGuide.pdf

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