Songs intermittently not starting at beginning on 10.1

After upgrading to 10.1, some songs randomly play at different points in the song when selected. I don't have "remember position" enabled for them. It is very frustrating and new behavior from previous verions of iTunes. Anybody else having this issue? I'm playing the mp3s back on an iPhone 4.

This is likely your iPhone skipping from the beginning of songs. I have the exact same thing on my new iPhone 4. I had a 3GS that was doing the exact same thing, and I upgraded to the iPhone 4 in hopes of having flawless playback. Wrong! Same exact problem. I also noticed it skipping when I was playing songs off of it through iTunes.
And the thing is, it's completely random. Sometimes the songs will play back perfectly, then other times they could start 1, 2, or 5 seconds in, or then maybe 2 minutes in. Or anywhere in between.
I bought my iPhone to have the capability of being able to 'do it all'... and that includes listening to music. Is it too much to expect perfect playback? Nope.
I hope there is s simple fix for this issue, but seeing as how this problem dates back over 12 months in my case, I'm not holding out any hope.
More to your point, I'm not certain if it's an iTunes problem, but seeing as how I had the same issues, I'd look into your iPhone. One test is of course to just play the songs with some headphones. Another is to FFWD from song to song and see how many times your songs DON'T start at 0:00.
Good luck!

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