iTunes bug: iTunes skips in the middle of a track to the next song

Occasionally, with some regular mp3 files iTunes (up to and including version 12.7) plays the song until a while, and then in the middle of the song iTunes stops and jumps to the next track.

This is strictly an iTunes player issue: as I show the files are not damaged and can be played by other media players without any problem. This is also not an issue with iTunes settings: as I show neither the start, nor the stop times are set and/or checked for these files.

One thing I don't show in the video: erasing the file from the iTunes library (completely removing it from the database, not just from the playlist) and reimporting it does not solve the issue.

Apple has been made aware of this issue years ago on its forums (by myself and others) but so far no representatives cared to address it. Please help increase awareness of this failure of core functionality, because apparently they don't bother fixing it until enough people are expressing their worries.

Here is an Apple discussion forum that I just started (since my old one apparently got removed): http://discussions.apple.com/message/28250270#28250270

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