[RainDawg]

Goat, the best way to find the source of the problem would be to burn to CD and then extract that audio with the same drive. Then listen to both the original source track and the one that's been on a CD, and confirm that they are identical. If so, then the CD player is having difficulty reading the CDR for one reason or another. And Ninja has already stated, slowing down the speed it's burned at can help fix this problem, but also changing media brand can help finicky CD players find something they like.