Metallic Grinding Sound on Burned CD Playback

When I burn a playlist to a CD, and then playback the CD...some of the songs contain a short loud metallic grinding sound right in the middle of the song. Anyone know a reason why this might be happening?
Thanks

Many possible causes, but the first thing to try is go to Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Burning, and set the "Preferred Speed" to a much lower value, and then burn again.

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