blips and skips

As mentioned in my original post, no the skip isn’t heard while playing through the PC or if I burn it onto a CD and play it through my car & truck MP3 players.

In addition, if I reload the file, the skip moves to another place.

Latest update:  I have converted a piece to the .m4a format and I have have also produced a version with a reduced bit stream rate in the .mp3 format and in both cases, a skip is still there.  I am presently listening to the reduced .mp3 version and there is only one skip near the beginning, so this might be an improvement, but I can’t do this for all my music.

I am wondering if there isn’t a fundamental flaw in the hardware and I’m surprised that nobody else is having this problem.   Maybe it’s because I listen to classically orchestrated music with quiet and dramatic passages and that’s why I’m noticing this.