Iphone skip to next or previous song stalls, freezes or crashes iphone

Hello, daily when im listing to a playlist when I skip to the next song or skip back few my iphone will lock up or freeze for about 30 or so seconds, or it will crash and go to the home page.
This sounds like a hardware problem with reading data of the flash storage on the iphone itself. Anyone else see this or ever hear of this?
thanks
Its a hfs formatted iphone.

Hi Scott,
In my experience, the songs that are skipping may not have transferred over to your iPhone correctly. I would advise you to uncheck the "Sync Music" checkbox, and apply the changes (so there is ultimately no music syncing to your iPhone).
Once you have done that, recheck the "Sync Music" checkbox, and apply the changes once more. This will instruct iTunes to completely remove all music from your iPhone, and then copy the files once more. If you have a large amount of music, this initial sync may take a while.
If the above does not resolve your issue, see the following articles:
iPhone and iPod touch: Songs or other audio content are skipped during playback
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3159
Troubleshooting songs that skip
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3217
Cheers!,
Matt M.

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