ITunes STILL skipping tracks (V. 11.4)

Ok, so I've had the problem of itunes skipping tracks in mid song, or just at any point. For any particular album, the skip is at the exact same time. This is getting very annoying. I have tried: disk utility, installing and uninstalling itunes, rebuilding the library, removing extensions, adding and removing tracks, and adding and removing tracks. It is worth mentioning that this only happens with tracks that I have added recently. It is also worth mentioning that the tracks play just fine on other playback apps like Quicktime. I had hoped the 11.4 update would fix this bug, but it has not.
I would GREATLY appreciate it if anybody has discovered the solution to this problem. Otherwise, I will have no choice but to replace iTunes as my music playback application, and that would be a real bummer.
Thank you.

Still waiting for a solution, I found a kind of workaround (not very useful if you had a lot of new music since you experience the bug).
I came to think that the problem is due to a bug in the analysis that iTunes performs to album tracks when importing new albums (what was called "gapless playback before iTunes 11). So I tried this and it works for me:
- ask iTunes to show where the tracks are (in the Finder on Mac, in Explorer on PC)
- return to iTunes and remove the tracks from the library (tell it to remove the songs but not to put the files in the trash)
- in the Finder (or Explorer for those on PC), re-import the songs one by one
Still waiting for a better solution of course. I'll try to rebuild the iTunes library entirely to see if it solves the problem but I don’t expect this to solve the problem so I'm not in a rush to do this annoying task.

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