Why do many songs on my iPhone 5 keep skipping?

Why do many songs on my iPhone 5 keep skipping?  I do not have iTunes Match.  I have the latest software update: iOS 6.0.2.  I legally own the songs that keep skipping.  I have heard this is a glitch in the operating system but that does not seem right.  Can anyone help?

I feel compelled to come onto this forum and post in answer to the song skipping issue.  I had exactly the same problem and FIXED IT!!  WOO WOO!
I splashed out on a brand new iPhone S 32GB to hold my massive music library - specifically because I want all my music portable.  Copied all my music across from my old music library which was a mixture of ripped CDs, old iTunes music and music purchased from Zune, the Microsoft music store (previous phone was a Windows phone). Synced the new iPhone to iTunes and started listening.  And quickly realised some of my favourite albums had skipping tracks.
Tracks would start playing, then about 1 minute before the end, would skip to next track while still showing previous track as playing. 
Here's how I fixed this maddening issue:
1. Make sure iPhone is not connected to computer.  On iPhone, go to Settings/General/Useage.
2. Select Music under Storage and click to view All Music.  Then, keeping your finger on the right of the screen, slowly drag your finger left the 'All Music' item until you see a red button with 'Delete' on it.  Click Delete to wipe all music entirely from iPhone.
3. Then, in iTunes, systematically go to each problem album with skipping tracks.  Delete them all from iTunes.  This is a bit annoying as you might have to listen to all of them to determine which ones have skipping tracks.  In my case, it was all the albums copied from Zune.
4. Staying in iTunes, go to File/Add Folder to Library and then manually add each album folder back one by one. You should find them in the 'My Music' folder on your computer's hard drive (I have a PC), usually sorted by artist. If you have more than one album by the same artist, open the artist folder and add each album folder seperately one by one.  This should reload the songs properly back to iTunes. It's important to load them one at a time back into iTunes - when I tried to bulk add, the skipping problem just kept recurring when I synced.
5. Then connect iPhone back to iTunes.  Resync your Library.
Songs should hopefully work!
Note: My songs always played properly on iTunes and it was only on the iPhone that they skipped.  I believe the problem was that they weren't being fully 'read' properly by iTunes, in a way that allowed them to copy entirely to the iPhone.  There must have been some information missing during initial syncing.
Hope this helps!

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