When syncing my iphone to itunes, itunes gets stuck on step 5 of 5 "waiting for changes to be applied"

Connected my iphone to itunes yesterday and as I was adding music to my phone itunes got stuck on transfering data and still will not complete. It says at the top "syncing with *** phone (step 5 of 5) waiting for changes to be applied" it will not go past this and will not continue to transfer the music. Not sure what to do?
Thanks!

After reading everyone elses "waiting for changes to be applied" questions I did a hard reset on my phone and then re plugged my phone into the computer reopened itunes and it worked perfectly!

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