ITunes music skips only in iTunes

Okay, I have a pretty decent laptop and have half of my memory free on it, however, my music on iTunes constantly skips and I can sometimes press pause and play again and it will be fine or sometimes it just goes away but the problem will happen again. This doesnt happen in Windows Media Player or any other audio player but those dont play all the songs I have on my iTunes so I need iTunes. Please help me.
-Joey Bano

Hmm, that's what I did. I downloaded into WMP and listened to it to make sure it wasn't skipping like iTunes. Sounded fine. I had always used WMA but my girlfriend had changed it to MP3, so when I downloaded it into WMP I thought maybe MP3 wouldn't be the way to go. I am not sure how to confirm it is MP3 other than the drop-down under ripping has MP3 checked. I'll try it again ED, thanks very much for your advise in this matter.

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Her problem is that she has deleted certain songs from her 'Jane Doe's iPod Playlist' so that she didn't have those songs on her iPod - I don't know the method she used to do this, nor does she. However, it has resulted in those songs now not showing up in the iTunes music library on her computer. There's just an exclamation mark and a dialog box asking if she would like to locate the songs.
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Her problem is that she has deleted certain songs from her 'Jane Doe's iPod Playlist' so that she didn't have those songs on her iPod - I don't know the method she used to do this, nor does she. However, it has resulted in those songs now not showing up in the iTunes music library on her computer. There's just an exclamation mark and a dialog box asking if she would like to locate the songs.
If you're seeing the , that's generally an indication that media files (the mp3 or m4a, etc., files) were moved using Finder. They were moved or removed and the iTunes library wasn't able to keep track of where they went. If this is an old machine that she's messed around with, it can be a bit of a crap shoot trying to figure out where the stuff should go (iTunes is quite unhelpful in telling you where the music for the broken links was expected to be ... you can take some guesses, but iTunes 9 and iTunes 8 use different folder structures, so getting the stuff in the right place can be a nuisance).
Is it possible to select all the albums in this 'iTUnes Music old' folder and simply drag and drop it onto the iTunes Music folder (after making sure that the location I'm dragging and dropping to corresponds to the location for her library as specified on the advanced tab of preferences) so that the songs will be back in the default library?
Surprisingly complicated question. If you were confident of where the music files should go, you could try moving them (safer, copy them) to your current iTunes media folder and if you drop them in the exact same spot they were before, your broken links problem will be solved. It's a long shot, though.
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Unless her version of iTunes is archaic (v7 or earlier), I'd suggest fixing her library first, and then doing the upgrade. Let's not add variables to the situation. Also, I don't know what the iTunes upgrade process would do with the broken links in her existing library.
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Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
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