Iphone music sync problems

Hello,
I recently transfered music from my dell laptop (music uploaded from personal cd collection) to my new iphone 4s. The songs appear on the phone in light grey but will not play. I have authorized the laptop after the transfer per a suggestion from friend when I first encountered problem. Still no luck. Any ideas.
Thanks,
Toad

After updating my iPhone 5 to 7.0.3 a few weeks ago, this issue has been bugging me. Finally got it syncing on mine after all this time. Simply unchecking the Sync Music and applying and then checking it back on and reapplying did not work.
What I finally did:
1) Uncheck all the playlists that are checked AND uncheck the Sync Music and then click Apply.
2) Then recheck the Sync Music box AND recheck the desired playlists and then click Apply.
(You may have to unplug the sync cable and plug back in before step 2. I had to do it on occasion, but sometimes I didn't and it worked fine.)
The caveat is that apparently you may have to do this everytime you want to add a playlist or song. Also on occasion I found an issue where I click on a song but it would play another one and moving to another song would play the song I wanted to play previously. I did a reset and it played correctly after that.
It's an inconvenience for now until a certain company fixes the issue. Hope this helps.

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