Does your music only play out of one speaker?

I was only hearing music played out of the left channel, either with or without headphones and also when played through a dock. 
I found the solution:
Go to Settings : General : Accessibility and slide the L - R slider to the middle.  Now the music plays out of both the L and the R speakers.
(If you tap the mono button there, then you will also hear sound out of both speakers, but you won't hear stereo effects, so don't do that).

Yes, that is a helpful addition to this thread, but my solution has to do with the speakers and the headphones that are plugged into the iPhone, as well as the stereo effect coming out of the iPhone itself.  When the accessibility slider is not in the middle, then you only hear one channel of the stereo program whether fromt he iPhone or from plugged in speakers.

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