IPhone plays wrong song, but shows correct name and artwork

Sometimes when I try to play a song on my iPhone using iTunes match, the song gets stuck at 0:00 and won't play, or the correct artwork shows with the correct meta info, but the wrong song is playing. Any ideas? I'm not trying to stream any of these song so it shouldn't be a bandwidth issue or anything like that.

I checked out page 61 about shuffling songs. I do shuffle the songs, however, my iPhone mixes up the audio and the track info.
Let's say I click on Between The Buried and Me's song Ants of the Sky, the iPhone will then show the proper information, say it's playing it, but then I hear something like Three Dog Night's One. These are files bought on iTunes and I am positive the track information and whatnot is correct in iTunes.
If the audio the iPhone is playing is longer than the song it says it's playing, the song will cut off early. The songs it chooses to play seem completely random, although a few songs are more frequently mis-played than others. This happens whether I am shuffling the songs or not. I first assumed that I had downloaded a corrupted file from iTunes, but then after multiple full restores, nothing seems to be fixing the problem.
Also, the more i play it, the more songs seem to get messed up. It's rather frustrating, I must say.

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