importing a song into iTunes won't ruin the quality of the song. My guess is that you have an internal mic. that was on and you hit record while the song plays, so it picks up static since you're not singing or anything. But that's my two cents.
What kind of Mac do you have and what did you put into the file? I'm not sure what the song breaks are but please explain in some more detail.
-BMF
Have music that I draged from Itunes. The music was burned from an album not in print any more. I have crackel and no song breaks. Any way to take care of this?

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