iTunes on WinXP problem

[gwimby]

Howdy all. I am having an issue iTunes and Audio CD playback.
It is happening on my win xp home centrino laptop, but not my 300mhz win2k desktop.

Some cds playback all skipping/scratchy/garbled. Some playback fine, some don't. The kicker is that they will playback fine useing another app - such as media player (v10) or mplayer.

Does anyone have any idea what would be causeing this?

the cd is not srcatched, and is older [1999] so copy protection shouldn't be an issue?

any help appreciated!

 

[Ryvita]

Are you talking about the playback from your harddrive?
I had such problems with "apple lossless" files, after I deleted and reripped (?) them with 128 it was fine. Those songs were also from older CDs (mid90ies).
Edit: ...and yes, they were playable on media player etc...

 

[Nermal]

In the preferences, there's an option for using error correction. Turn it on and see whether it helps.

 

[gwimby]

not form hard drive, just form cd-rom drive.
I have my whole collectionin lossless, no playback problems for me thus far.

I usually have error-correction turned on for importing cds. Turning it off actually seems to helpthough not totally remedy the issue. ???