IPhone & iTunes - cutting music short

Looking to fix my iPhone iTunes - it will randomly stop playing music or switch to the next song before the current one is over. I have seen hundreds of posts about this from users but absolutely nothing from Apple on this issue. Honestly, I don't care who gives me the answer, I would just like to know how this gets fixed.

I appreciate your inputs but this isn't a simple issue fixed through the Apple "R's" and given the number of similar issues by other users, I do not think its hardware related. I love my iPhone (and all my other Apple products) and know that this issue has to be defined by someone and a patented fix available somewhere. Do Apple techs respond on this forum?

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As the title suggests, iPhone, iTunes and the music app on the iPhone have all been causing me a great deal of frustration. I am experienceing a number of seamingly related problems:
1. After adding new music and syncing my phone with iTunes, iTunes seems to "choose" what songs it wants to sync even though I clearly have "Sync Entire Music Library" checked.
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Hello gman4354,
It sounds like your phone is not syncing correctly to your computer, and the Music app is not functioning correctly even after deleting and re syncing your music from the app. I recommend starting by turning off your Music syncing in iTunes by unchecking that box in the Music tab when you have the phone connected, and clicking apply.
Then close the Music app on the phone:
iOS: Force an app to close
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5137
Double-click the Home button.
Swipe left or right until you have located the app you wish to close.
Swipe the app up to close it.
When you have done that and restart the phone and sync the Music to your phone again to re test the issue:
iOS: Turning off and on (restarting) and resetting
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1430
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
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Sterling

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