Music player on iphone not playing music?

I have an iphone 3GS with the ios5 updates. Ever since the update, when I try to listen to my music, no sound plays. Volume is turned up compltely. Sounds for all other things working on the phone. The music player appears to be playing the song, but there is not a sound. Light blue "play" symbol appears in the right hand corner and the pause button is displayed as though the song is playing. I put the songs on using the "purchased" button in the itunes store and then downloading them to my phone. I also can't figure out how to delete the songs now that they are on there. I was going to get rid of them all and then start over manually from the computer. However, when I put the phone into the itunes on the computer, the songs no longer appear as they are on my phone, but they are there, taking up space and not working! Please help! I really dont want to have to reset the phone completely!

deciplen8 wrote:
I really dont want to have to reset the phone completely!
Well it seems like that is your only option. Before you restore, try restarting the phone and see if that does anything.

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