iTunes damaging my music.

Itunes seems to be damaging my music over time. Song's I've put on there and listened to many time suddenly come up with this ticking sort of sound in with the music. Almost like tiny skips, tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick. Like listening to an old record with a scratch across it. It's the strangest thing and I can't find any information on it online. Though that might be from my lack of knowing what to call it. Some of the songs have it all the way through and some are just parts or half.

Any ideas or info would be greatly appreciated.

Take care,
Archi

 

I've even tried running the music file with Quicktime, and its the exact same thing in the exact same spots; Ipod as well. I don't really know what setting to tweak that would effect it.

 

I checked that sound check box and it was not checked. Also I'm running windows XP pro with 2GB of RAM. I did find that refrence to skipping with low ram but isn't that just skipping? This is actually IN the song (I can go back and the ticks are in the exact same positions).

I had been deleting them as they happened and didn't check what format they were except the last one which was .m4a.

I think it's only happened to songs we've imported from CD's. Though we don't have a huge list of purchased songs, especially compared to the list of CD songs.

 

If you imported the songs from a cd it is very possible that there was problems with the way the CD rom drive read the cd as it was copying it. Thats tick sound used to happen to me all of the time before I got new computer.

 

I have reinstalled a couple times in the past. No luck.

Initially the CD drive problem is what I thought, but wouldn't that happen when they were first ripped? Most of them played fine after ripping and then at some point after that they started having the ticks.