ITunes syncing everything but audio files

I woke up this morning to go for a jog, having synced my phone the night before. I turned on the music app to discover that everything is missing. So I tried syncing it again, and I watched colored bar at the bottom on itunes as it built up my audio files but then suddenly at the end of the syning process, the audio files suddenly disappear again. I've tried restarting my computer, restarting my phone, but still the audio files won't sync. All the audio files are still in iTunes, but they simply won't transfer to the iPhone. All apps and other files sync perfectly. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

I think i'm having the same problem. did you ever get this figured out? mine happened right after i update to the ios 6.0.1 software.

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