In addition to what Noel said, I have a few questions.

Is this a laptop?

If you reboot, does the problem go away?

Does it happen on all songs?

Have you tried Opt., Preferences, Return to Factory Settings?

Are you running a virus/malware program?

Also, two suggestions you can try that may help diagnose the cause:

1. Download and run the free DPC Latency Checker and see if it says you are OK for digital audio.

2. Download Geekbench and report your score. We may need to discuss some settings in Preferences, RealTracks if you have a slower computer.


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