Random bursts of songs

Has anyone else had this problem? When I have my iTunes going (not necessarily with a song playing, but just up and running) I'll get a 1 - 2 second clip of a song (REALLY loud, no matter where my laptop's volume is), and I don't have any of them on my iTunes (there are 4 different songs that play). What the heck do I do to stop this?! It's really annoying, especially when I'm at work.

Was this working in a previous version of iTunes and it started doing this when you upgraded or did it just suddenly start doing this without anything changing?

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I know random means random, but there are too many "random" coincidences and apparent patterns that occur to raise doubt that it truly is as random as Apple claims.
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Hi rjs317,
Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
It sounds like there are some songs that iTunes isn't able to locate, the songs may have been moved to another folder or disk. The article linked below provides more information about the exclamation point symbol and provides suggestions that will resolve most missing media issues.
iTunes: Finding lost media and downloads
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1408
I hope this helps.
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iOS: Force an app to close
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5137
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1430
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Here's how to solve this problem for ALL songs
left click your first song [in your music library]
now scroll down to your last song, hold shift, and left click the last song
right click and click "get info"
click OK after the warning message [for editing multiple files at a time]
disable the "remember playback position" option
connect your iPod, and this should do the trick!
also, your iPod doesn't just remember that option from iTunes, it also remembers your EQ preset for certain songs and also volume adjustment for certain songs [-100% to +100% in case the song is too loud]

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In the iPod it goes
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2. Chunga's Revenge
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