IPod voice controls broken on 3GS with iOS5

After upgrading to iOS 5, the music voice controls on my 3GS stopped functioning completely, i.e. voice commands such as "play playlist...", "play songs by...", "play album...". All of this worked well before and now only results in a "No match found". Dialing voice controls work just as well as before the upgrade.
Does anyone else have that problem? It seems to me as if the voice control simply does not realize that the music is there... Is there some way to "re-synch" the music library on the iPhone with the voice control, or something similar?

A friend on 4G couldn't activate voice recognition after the IOS5 upgrade (although my phone worked fine) - it kept saying "no match found". After playing around with the settings, we tried reversing the display order of the contacts (last, first / first, last), and voila - voice recognition worked again!
The great I.T. fix-all works wonders: "Have you tried turning it off and on again".  I recommend giving the contact list swap a try (by the way, we then put it back to it's original settings and it worked fine) to see if it resets your voice control.

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