IPhone 'Audio' has converted to 'Other'

Hello,
I recently (yesterday) updated my iPhone 4S to version 8.1.2. I was very reluctant to update such an old device to such new hardware, but I finally took the plunge after not being able to download or use many applications anymore.
Afterward, aside from running slow, as expected, the only big issue was that my music would not play. When I clicked on a song, instead of playing, it would shuffle very quickly through all of my songs, as though each song was less than a second long. I suspected that my music files were missing and/or corrupted. So I removed all of my music by syncing, hoping to re-add the music again and all would be well.
Unfortunately, the after removing the music, the 'Other' category was suddenly taking up around 8.5 GB, whereas before I had roughly 2.5 GB in 'Other'. My music is about 6 GB worth, so I suspect that the music has somehow been converted from 'Audio' files to 'Other'.
Now I have no music on my iPhone and about 6 GB of seemingly nothing taking up the remainder of my space. Any thoughts on how I can remove this useless memory? I have already ran "PhoneClean Pro", which removed about 300-400 MB or so, but I believe this to be unrelated data.
Thanks in advance!

I'm having a very similar problem. I've got an iPhone 6 and am also running 8.1.2. When I synced my phone this morning, all of my music (except songs I purchased through iTunes, which is only about 1.3 GB worth) was removed. However, there is now 38.2 GB of 'other' on my phone (taking up most of my 56 GB of storage space), which is presume is my music still sitting there, even though I can't access it.
I've tried several things to get rid of this big lump of useless data, including:
1) Unchecking and then re-checking 'sync music'
2) Restoring my phone from the iTunes backup
3) Resetting my phone by holding down the sleep and home buttons
4) Restarting iTunes
So far, nothing's worked.

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