Music interrupted during playback in music app, iOS 7

Hi everyone,
Since upgrading to iOS 7 on my iPhone 4S, when a track that is playing in the music app gets to within a few seconds of the end, the sound gets broken up. It's exactly the same effect as what happens when you are listening to streaming audio online and the connection becomes weak. Repeated interruptions of a split-second each.
The music breaks up and sounds choppy for the final few seconds of the track. I never had any problem like this with iOS 6 for the past year and a half. Now it happens at least 25-30% of the time during music playback.
Almost all of my music is playing from iCloud, using iTunes Match, so this may have something to do with the fact that it is streaming. The problem happens regardless of whether I'm connected via 3G or Wi-Fi.
Has anyone else out there experienced this? Any suggestions?
If you haven't experienced this before I'll bet you can still imagine how frustrating it is. I was going to use the word annoying at first, but that's not nearly strong enough.
Maybe there is a related read on here that I just haven't been able to find yet.
Looking forward to resolving this, thanks!

Another related problem that happens in the music app with iOS 7 is "skipping". Just like a badly scratched vinyl record, the app will suddenly stop in the middle of a track and repeat the last second (approximately) of the track over and over and over again.
When this happens, it seems the only thing you can do is stop the track and start it again from the beginning, and hope that the skipping doesn't happen again.
I was curious who else is had this problem as well, and have you found a solution?

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