Some songs not shared

I have my main iTunes library on the big iMac in the sitting room and share the library with all the other machines in the house but some songs, even though they show up in the shared library, refuse to play and stay at 0 seconds. The only thing that I can think of that links the unplayable tracks is that they are all converted from FLAC to M4A with XLD or Max. I have a lot of tracks converted this way and the majority are shared happily. Get Info on the recalcitrant songs doesn't reveal anything unusual. Does anyone have any suggestions as to where the problem may lie ?
Cheers, Daniel

Well, I've discovered what the problem is. I rip my tracks to 160 VBR and I've noticed that iTunes displays the bit rate as 160, whereas Get Info in Quicktime reveals the real bit rate. iTunes actually gives the real bit rate for these songs that won't play when shared so now I need to find some way of editing the files so that they behave like the rest.

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