Why a pause 3 seconds into song?

Whenever i play a song in itunes, 3 seconds into the song, there will be a pause usually around 5 seconds before the song resumes playing. This happens with every song in my library. Ive downloaded the latest itunes and nothing seems to help. Any solutions to this?

I know for me that iTunes does that only the first time I play a song. Why? Because I have a widget that looks up the lyrics of a song and applies it to the mp3. So it takes about 5 seconds to find the lyrics, and then a few seconds to add it to the mp3.
Another thing could be an album art finder thing you might have. Anything that automatically changes something in the ID3 tags (otherwise known as the "Info" of the mp3). If it happens every time, you may not have whatever widget or script writing the info correctly. Who knows, maybe your mp3s have about 10 copies of the album cover in them.

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I just had this happen to me. It maybe too late to help
you, but, it might help sombody else.
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I'm having the same problem. I've isolated it in a number of ways trying to resolve it.
It always happens 13 seconds into playing a track. This applies whether it plays from the beginning, 1 min into the track or if I make is jump to different places. Each time, once it has played 13 seconds (ie first 13 secs or if I jump to 1 min immediately it will be at 1:13 or if I play 6 secs then jump to 1:30 it will happen at 1:37). The CPU spikes to 100%, pausing everything and leaving a 3 or 4 sec silence.
This happens regardless of track length. So a 1 hour dj set will have the CPU spike at 13 secs and then be fine for the next hour.
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