When playing songs in itunes, songs will freeze or delay. How do I stop this?

My itunes has been doing this for months. I must admit that I do not believe my computer is that great(old), but, still, when playing music in iTunes, the timer or play clock will stop. The song will keep playing but the clock will stop moving for either 4 or 7 seconds. When this happens, everything freezes. Thus, you can't adjust volume, select another song, make a playlist, etc.  Recently, I created a new user on my computer and installed iTunes under that name.  The problem there is that there is no visible music library.  My library only appears in "recently added."  So, that is very concerning as well.  I believe the music is delaying there, also.  But it causes alarm if I were to reinstall on my main user and I couldn't see my library.  I have a lot of music. 
Please advise if anyone has a good solution.
Thanks,
Annette

This is the control DaVBMan is talking about.  Tap the shuffle control until it shows white for shuffle off.

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