Sound quality craps out on certain songs

i have a 4 gb nano and everything works fine except for a few of my songs which have a deep pounding bass, like some of my felix da housecat and fischerspooner songs which sound like the headphones are busted. ive tried connecting different headphones & enabled sound check but it still remains. if anyone knows anything about this please reply.
Thanks,
Mason

Try uploading the songs again, it's a wild shot but it could be a problem with the connection.
Also try uploading the same songs, but from different location.

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Deleting the application rarely solves anything on Macs. A better starting point is normally to delete the preference file for the application (in Users/~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.itunes.plist) or see if you have the same problem in another user account on the computer.
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Mike, deleting the preferences did the trick, but I don't know why. Itunes downloaded 5 days of podcast! Hurray!! Thank you!!!!!!!!!

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