Oooops, just thought of another thing...

No, this is NOT crazy... You may want to do a serious, possibly multi-passes, defragmentation run on your hdd...
Some players are far more sensitive to defragmented files than others... Depends very much on buffer settings... So, one player might just make it with no audible problems while another will trip up...

Happens quite frequently and... AND, practically no one out there does proper routine maintenance such as at least weekly defragmentation runs... (Especially using Diskeeper, hint, hint !)

Yes, Mr. P ?