Playback randomly pauses or stops by itself????

Whenever I try to listen to my itunes library on my IMAC, the songs will randomly momentarily pause, or stop playing; but will resume playing 2-3 seconds after this happens. my library is on an external hard drive, and I have the most current version of ITUNES. What could be causing this? Is this happening to anyone else? suggestions? Please help, as you'd imagine it's extremely difficult trying to listen to your music when it keeps randomly "stop & play". Furthermore, I was thinking of buying an ipod, but if the same thing's gonna happen, I'd rather go back to CDs. Help ME!!

Select all the music on the external at once. Use Command+A to select everything.
Drag it into your itunes music library.
---If that doesn't work reselect all the music...
Hit Command+C to copy it and leave the originals on the external, Command+X to cut them instead of copy.
Create a folder on your desktop
Open it and hit command+V
Then drag and drop into your itunes library.
I'm getting offline, don't hesitate to email me at [email protected] and I'll get it on the iPhone if you need anything else. Otherwise I won't see it until tomorrow Evening.
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