IOS 7 music playback issues in car on USB - iPhone 5

I'm having some serious and very frustrating issues with the new music app on iOS 7. I use my phone on USB to play music in my '13 Hyundai Sonata. Been doing that for about a year and it's been a dream. Now all of a sudden after upgrading to iOS 7, I have the following issues:
-serious lag (sometimes 5 sec) when changing songs from my steering wheel or stereo
-random songs not displaying their title (never had an issue previously with this)
-song time not showing as the song progresses. Just says 0:00
-hitting the rewind button to start a song over will actually go to the previous song, even if I'm well into the current song
-at random times it will just default back to the first song in my library when switching songs
This is my biggest issue with the update. I tried resetting by holding the power/home buttons but that didn't work. I haven't tried blue tooth because I don't want to drain the battery and pair it every time-  my car makes me do that. May come to that though. Does anyone know of a  fix for playing on the USB? It's basically unusable right now.
Not sure if this is related to the car issues or just the app in general, but I also can't tell Siri to play a song anymore- she doesn't let me finish talking before it beeps at me again.
Thanks!

I have been experiencing this problem as well.  I have some 8,000 songs in my library and just shuffled it once and allow the player to pick songs for me.  Sometimes I have to skip several dozen songs because it plays the same songs I listened to before.
Now, this gets a bit speculative, but I noticed that if I pause the player briefly, it will pick up where it left off -- even when "briefly" means several hours.  Thus I am speculating that the bug happens when you switch applications.  Leave the player on, maybe answer a couple of phone calls, and you should be fine.  Use other apps, and the music player will jump back to the last place when you resumed it under controlled conditiojns.  I hope others can confirm or refute this finding, as I have a real job to take care of too.
This also suggests a workaround; when you stop listening, pause the player, but then press play again, and pause again.  If that works, you should be able to pick up from the first pause when you resume listening.

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