I press play, iphone looks to play, but music won't start and track remains on 0:00

Hi there
I recently  upgraded to ios 5 and since then my music is behaving very strangely on my iphone.
Essentially I press play and the button changes to a pause sign (indicating it is playing), a play icon appears in the top next to the battery icon, but nothing happens - the track remains at 0:00.
Sometimes it does play a couple of song and then it hits this glitch and freezes on a song. I can forward to another song but it just freezes on that song.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Alex

I have a similar issue.  The best way i've devised was to just shut off the phone completely and then turn it back on. It works for me...

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