Sound on playback of iTunes music either on iTunes or Sonos stops.

Have had this problem for a while on different platforms but seems worse now.
Had XP on laptop and library on time capsule. The sound on playback of iTunes songs would quite, but iTunes still acted like it was playing. Sound would restart after a few songs went by or if you restarted the song.
Went to iMac partially because of this issue and now still have the problem. Have iTunes library loaded locally on the iMac. So then thought that it was an Airport issue. So I went with Sonos system and the problem persists. I see similar posts all over the web, but don't see solutions
I've been sold on the fact that Apple products just work, but that has definitely NOT been my experience with iTunes. Not even close.
Hope someone can help.

let's first check through the possibilities from this document:
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