Why are all my songs now classified as 'Other' and not visible on my phone any more?

Here's an idea of what's happened recently;
Got a new a computer and set up my iTunes library no problem, had access to all the same music I had on my old PC.
Just added a new album to my iTunes library, which also worked fine, but when I tried to sync it to my iPhone 5 I wasn't able to transfer anything to it.
I used iTunes to back up my iPhone and do a full restore on the iPhone hoping that would fix the issue.
Now my 35GBs of Music is classified as 'Other' storage, there's not enough room on the iPhone to transfer all my songs to it again and no way to delete the 'Other' storage to make space for it.
I have tried unchecking 'Sync only checked songs and videos' and rechecking it. I have also tried unchecking and checking 'Sync Music'. Either way I go the iPhone still has 35GBs of Other storage I can't seem to remove.
Any help or support?

I ended up doing a Full Restore on my iPhone without restoring from a previous backup. I'm just curious what I have to do in the future to prevent this issue if I switch PC's again.

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