I keep losing my music on my iphone.

I keep losing my music on my iphone. when i try to sync the music back, i always get this msg saying itunes can't detect the apps.
I can see the music but its like faded and have the syncing symbol next to it.
I almost tried every possible solution to fixing it, i restarted my computer a million times nothing works.
My iphone is an iphone 4 and the itunes i have is 10.5

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