Music has TINY SKIPS while playing on my mac

Anyone know why the music has these little "click" skips while playing?  I'm playing on a mac pro with Yosemite and hard wired high speed 150 Mbs connection.  It's like the music has these tiny fast interruptions in it when playing.  It seems to have happened only recently.  Perhaps this is spotify encouraging me to leave for Apple's new service?  

Is app nap enabled? https://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Desktop-Linux-Mac-Windows/App-Nap-and-OSX-10-10-3/m-p/1160650

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