ITunes stops playing for no reason

Every once in a while, iTunes will randomly stop playing in midsong. I'm usually using a different application (Safari, MS Word, etc) when it happens. When I go back to iTunes the "play" key is on pause, as if I were to have paused the song myself. When I press play again, it's all good.
This used to happen with my 5 year old Powerbook G4 and I figured it was just the computer slowly decaying, but the same thing happens in my brand new Macbook, so I'm assuming it may be a software glitch. I'm running 7.5 right now. It's not a huge inconvenience, but I know it's not supposed to be happening.
Anyone else have this problem?

You could try deleting the plist:
1.) Quit iTunes
2.) Go to Home > Library > Preferences and delete a file called com.apple.itunes.plist
3.) Restart or logout/login comp
4.) Open iTunes and try again
Also try in a new user. That'll narrow it down to an issue with your account or something more system-wide.

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