PC to Macbook Pro Home Sharing

Okay, I bought a 13" Retina Macbook Pro last week and I used Home Sharing to transfer my music from iTunes on my PC to iTunes on my Macbook. Minus having to log back into the hotel wifi a couple times, I had no issues. Music plays perfectly on both the PC and Mac iTunes players. However when I sync my music from my Macbook to my iPhone 5, a very large portion of my music stops playing before the end of the song. Either the music stops completely or it skips to the next song while still displaying the previous songs' information. Resync right? Nope, no change. Factory reset! I did, restored from backup, no change. Restore as new! Yep, no change still. What gets me is that the songs play just fine on iTunes for PC and Mac, even after Home Sharing, but for whatever reason the songs no longer sync properly. They all played just fine when I had my iPhone 5 synced to my PC. The issue is only after using Home Sharing to transfer from PC to Mac and syncing my iPhone 5 with my Mac. I can't find this particular issue elsewhere which is why I'm asking the question. Before Apple or anyone else tells me to delete my music and redownload it, here's the problem with that, of my 3,100 songs, I've only bought 1 from iTunes, the rest came from my personal collection of CD's, or came from a friend's collection and I don't have the CD's to rerip into iTunes on my Mac. Is there any way I can fix this?

Hey harold WD!
You will want to consolidate your entire library onto one computer using Home Sharing in order to sync all of these items onto your iPod. Use the following article to help you accomplish this:
iTunes 11 for Mac: Use Home Sharing to import items from another iTunes library
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12286
Thanks for using the Apple Support Communities. Have a good one!
-Braden

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