Accessing large music library with IOS 7 impossibly frustrating

I have a large collection of music stored on iTunes Match. I used to access the music via my iPhone. Ever since upgrading to IOS 7 this has become impossible. My phone gets hung up for minutes at access a band for whom I have a lot of music (the wait used to be seconds). If I am patient enough to wait it out, navigating through the music to find what I want is impossible. Now I have to scroll through every song, no longer just through album titles. Also, there are no navigation bars on the side that allow me to skip to a particular alphabet letter or #. It's unbelievable to me that Apple would make using music so difficult. Does anyone know of a workaround to this? Or maybe there are "cleverly" hidden navigation buttons I am not aware of of. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Also, it cancels my syncin with the bar at some point too all the time. So struggling with it too. I do want to downgrade my software but already downloaded and updated my software now.

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kalynn1015 wrote:
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