ICloud plays only a portion of many songs... Why? How to fix?

After purchasing iCloud, my MacPro started its sync to the cloud. Once uploaded, I turned on iCloud on my iPhone 4, iPad (1), and MacBook Pro.
On all these devices, many songs play approx 50% of the song and then stops...
If I wait about 5 minutes, I can advance the timeline to about 3/4 of the way across the length of the song and press play. The "dot" on the timeline will begin moving, but no audio will play.
Has anyone else experienced this problem?
This is happening on 30-50% of the songs (5000+).
By the way, the song plays in its entirity on my MacPro.

Yeah for me the music on my 4s keeps stopping and I have to click to the next song sometimes keep clicking until a song plays........Why? they are not greyed out they are all there matched ....big glitch and not worth the wonderful Icloud experience I thought it was proposed to be. Everything where u want it? not for me . I'm back to plugging it into the mac and loading music the way I have been from the 1st ipod/itunes......Icloud is not just does not work for me and with that being said I upgraded to Snow leaopard and then downloaded Lion ..just to have the service along with match......and am now experiencing major connection issues with the airport and 1tb Time capsul....Why release it if there are so many issues? I have been a hard core Apple guy for at least 15 years and now wondering if the path they have chose to include the masses is hurting their ability to release stable systems....oops there it goes again my time capsul shut down on its own and restarted my download which ironically erased the whole kitten caboodle. Yup ..they need a new slogan ...JUST WORKS! NOT!!!!!!

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