Songs on itunes suddenly skipping around like a record

All of a sudden, when I try to open another window on my computer while listening to itunes, the music starts skipping and gets kind of "crackly" like an old record. I just updated to the latest itunes version. Anyone know what's going on?

Mines doing exactly the same. I know why - CPU usage climbs to 100% - but don't know the reason. Running on a 3.2GHz PC should be OK! Downgradging to an older version of iTunes and it's fine. Anyone go any ideas??

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' Duplicates
' ==========
' Version 1.0.0.2 - December 6th 2012
' Copyright © Steve MacGuire 2011-2012
' http://samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/Duplicates.vbs
' Please visit http://samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/scripts.asp for updates
' =======
' Licence
' =======
' This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms
' of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either
' version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
' This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;
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' See the GNU General Public License for more details.
' Please visit http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0-standalone.html to view the GNU GPLv3 licence.
' ===========
' Description
' ===========
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' =========
' ChangeLog
' =========
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***New*** iTunes 7 skipping songs problem (2-3 seconds of play only)

Hey all,
Long post here, but I hope you'll bear with me, as I reckon this is something of a new fault with iTunes 7.
Found a bug with iTunes 7 on my iPod Video which I don't see any references to from anyone else. (I presume I'm not alone, but I've Googled the **** out of this problem and no one else seems to specifically have it...)
Basically, with iTunes 6.0.5, all was well. For putting songs ONTO the iPod, I've been using Anapod Explorer for well over a year, again without any problems. (I don't usually keep much of a music library on the PC - it all gets stored on DVD-burned MP3 discs, so there is a backup, just not on the machine. For that reason, and for personal preferences with iTunes' own way of updating, I find Anapod's copy and paste approach to updating the iPod to be much handier.)
So, long story short, a few weeks ago I upgraded to iTunes 7. Left it a while longer than usual because I was burned by an earlier iPod software upgrade which stopped me from playing divx/xvid videos created using iPod Videora Converter - on that occassion, I had to pull the firmware BACK to what it was when I first got the iPod. Thankfully, whatever bug was in 1.1 in relation to home-created videos is no longer there, and 1.2 works perfectly well. The brightness feature is the main reason I risked changing the software again.
So you would have thought all would be well with the songs, then? Unfortunately not. iTunes 7, slick and all as it appears, seems to create a situation whereby, once I disconnect from iTunes, ALL songs suddenly only play for 1-3 seconds before STOPPING, with the 'playing' bar jumping all the way to the last second and holding there. Skip forward to the next song, and same thing!
This cannot be an issue in relation to Anapod, as it never affected iTunes seeing the songs updated to the iPod via that method before. What iTunes 7 does seem to have done, though, is prevent songs being played in the normal way by introducing this frustrating 'start, 3-seconds, stop' issue. It will eventually go to the next song after about 1-2 minutes of silence, and then the process repeats. Throughout all of this, the songs do play normally within iTunes 7(0.2) so it is not a hard drive or corrupt file problem.
I should say that this is not crucial or a desperate situation, as I've already found a way to fix it. Moving BACK to iTunes 6.0.5 (or any 6.x.x version) and playing a few songs within iTunes, and then disconnecting will miraculously return all the songs to the usual full playing ability.
Unfortunately for Apple, this means (for the second time in a year) that I cannot update to their latest release as it ruins the playability of my iPod. I would like the extra features in iTunes 7 (for playing songs on the computer - as I said I never used it for updating anyway), but this latest glitch means I'll be using the more stable and reliable 6 for some time to come.
What I'm curious from the good folks on the forums here is to see if any of you have heard of this exact problem until now, and if so, what solution anyone had to get around it (possibly including actually keeping iTunes 7!)
Thanks for the help. Sorry for the long post. It all seemed kind of necessary when I see so many posts about 'skipping songs' but never about 2-3 seconds worth of play (most usually say they get more than half way.)
iPod Video Windows XP

I've update the subject of your post to more accurately reflect the issue.

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When I play songs on my computer in itunes many songs have a long skip about 1/3 of the way into the songs. Sometimes the skip is just that, a little skip, but sometimes it seems to replay a tiny section of the song over and over very fast, like a reverb, and get louder as it does so. Kind of ruins the moment and the song. Thanks for any help or anyone else have the same problem ???
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Tygerlylly,
Read my post here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1307909&#1307909
iTunes has corrupted your song files- you should open one or two and you'll see gaps have been added, some segments are recreated between gaps, etc. They're an absolute mess! Can't wait for someone to explain that.
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