ITtunes match freezes iphone 4s on ios6.

Hello,
So far I've only found one other person who has the exact same problem and they can't fix it either. Apple flat out told me to my face the problem doesn't exist, so I'm not sure what to do.
Whether I'm on cellular or WiFi, the music app on my iPhone 4S, since upgrading to ios6, freezes irreversibly and without warning. Sometimes the music will continue playing, but since the music app stopped working, there's no way to shut it off other than muting the phone or shutting the phone itself off, which is more than a little annoying. I've tried quitting the music app, turning off Show All Music, iTunes Match, WiFi, Cellular, I've gone into and out of Airplane Mode, shut the phone down, reset the phone to factory settings, and nothing makes the issue go away. Usually after twenty minutes or so the music app unfreezes and plays like nothing ever went wrong, but within ten minutes it does it again. Then it's an average of twenty minutes down time while my four hundred dollar phone tries to remember how to accomplish complex tasks like streaming a single song.
I'm not being throttled either, as that was my first assumption.
Ironically, the only places the issue will not appear are Apple and AT&T stores. I've begged the employees to just walk around the block with me and see it quit working, but as I previously said, I've been told there is no issue, and I'm just out of cell range when it happens. Except that it happens when I have full bars on cellular, and on WiFi networks. Also, no other aspect of my phone has any issues, ever.
If anyone can offer any advice I'd be greatly appreciative!
Thanks for reading!

A little patience would be a virtue. This is a volunteer-staffed user-to-user forum, and reposting after 5 minutes isn't likely to endear you to the other users who respond when they have time available.
If this problem happens everywhere you need to have the phone checked out, as Ralph says. If it is only in certain areas it could be network congestion or a partial network outage. If that is a possibility contact your carrier.

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