Iphone music not showing up in itunes

Help! My iphone 4S works just fine when i[m using it, but when I plug it into my computer it doesn't show my music in iTunes. iTunes no longer opens automaticallly when I attach the iPhone, although it is visible in the windows Device Manager and in Itunes (instead of showing the few thousand songs i have, it shows 3 that i downloaded from the itunes store, but in gray, so i can't alter them anyway). I've tried on multiple computers, I've tried turnng the iPhone off and on (i REALLY hate to wipe it if not necessary - like I said, the phone and music and everything else on the phone itself are fine, and i don't want to risk not being able to reload any music after restoring it to factory default. I've seen other people with the same or similar problems, but no one seems to have a working solution. Any ideas?

I have an iPhone 4S and have the same issue.  I noticed yesterday that I had alot of duplicate songs on my iPhone so I did the drastic thing and removed all music from iTunes then synced my iPhone.  This removed all the music from the iPhone, but still shows audion in the capacity bar at the bottom.  Sure enough when i go into music on my iPhone there is still music on the phone.
I can't see this music from iTunes at all.  I've tried sync'ing and manually managing music both, and neither of them will make the music show back up in iTunes.
The music just seems to be stuck on my phone.  I really don't want to have to restore my phone, but right now i don't know if i have much choice.

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