Downloaded songs losing data..

I have numerous previously downloaded songs that appear to be, losing data.   I'm listening to incomplete songs and it's driving me nuts...

Yes, they were checked and selected to sync.. all purchased with the same appleid and I never received any error messages.. funny as it is though, after rwading some threads I saw one person mention that they played a few seconds of each song then synced again and it worked.. so I tried it and now all my purchases show up in my playlist on the iphone itself. Weird... but hey whatever works. Thanks SO much for responding though, I was definitely more than a little upset lol

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