My iPhone simply doesn't sync songs from my MacBook Pro

Hello,
I recently bought a MacBook Pro and transferred my iTunes library to my new computer. Everything went smoothly for probably two syncs when it just simply stopped syncing.
The usual syncing process displays in the window at the top. iTunes completes steps 1 and 2 but seems to skip step 3: determining tracks to sync. It flashes these words for a fraction of a second then goes on to step 4. It then proceeds to finish the sync but when I look at my phone, the songs I want to remove from my iPhone are still there and the songs in my library are not.
There are no red X's beside any of my songs, I do not get any error messages, "Sync Music" is checked under the music tab of my iPhone, and I am using the current version of iTunes.
If I can get a solution here, it would save me trip to the apple store.
Thanks
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