Can't delete songs from iPhone 5

Xylinx--How do you delete manually? I started with one problem. Followed various people's advice and now have 2 problems.

First problem--I downloaded MP3 version of books on tape. Two sets of the book, chapters all jumbled up, appeared on my iPhone under Music. I went to iTunes and only one version of the book appeared. I deleted it from my phone in iTunes. One version disappeared from the phone, but the second remained. It is nowhere to be found in iTunes, yet it remains under Music on my phone. It deleted it from Overdrive (which is how I got it into iTunes in the first place) and from a file I found on my computer. It is nowhere on my computer now, but still it does not delete from my iPhone.

Second problem--Following directions from others on this list, I unchecked and rechecked Sync only Checked, and turned off Show All Music, I now have two music albums on my phone that I didn't want to be there. I tried to delete them like I have always deleted music by clicking on them and hitting delete on my computer, but they do not delete. The check mark is grayed out, meaning it is inaccessible.

YIKES!!!!

This helped out SOOO MUCH thanks for the post. Settings ----> General ---> Usage ---> music ----> swipe left (delete).....cleared the problem. Now I can re-sync and have all my music without duplicates.

This works too:

To delete all music, you can go to Settings → General → Usage → Music and tap onEdit. This brings up the delete button. Tap on it and then tap on Delete to delete all music.

Thanks, Tracie and djohnston. I never knew this feature existed, but it did the trick. You guys rock!

I delete all songs from itunes and my phone still has the songs!!

This is a drastic measure, but it's the only one which worked for me. => Go to Settings>General>Usage>Music and delete all the content. After a couple of button-presses in iTunes, it recognized that the phone had no content. Now I'm adding music back to the phone from nothing. A little severe, but at least it worked. Thanks, Tony.

Swipe on the song right to left, hit delete. If it's iTunes Match music-you can't.

Just sign out of itunes in the settings menu>iTunes & App Store. Then sign back in. All the 'cloud' music will be gone (provided you turned off "Show All songs" in the music settings) which are most likely the un-deletable ones. Hope this helps.

Thank you! I finally got rid of all the unwanted songs thanks to your help!

After trying other posted suggestions, this one resolved my issue. Thank you!

Some Please Help Me I plug my phone into my computer and it wont let me delete any music! please I need Help!

Thanks tonyballinger this solved my problem!

I had a ton of music on my phone that should have been deleted through syncing.. This cleared them out and I just re-synced to get the songs back.

I'm not sure why I had so many unwanted songs! I'm guessing it's caused by deleting a playlist of songs without first removing that playlist from the phone.. Not sure.

worked for me as well.

thank you!

You, sir, are brilliant. Thank you!!!!

Obviously deleting your entire music collection will get rid of the annoying songs. It will also DELETE YOUR ENTIRE MUSIC COLLECTION. That's like asking someone how to fix your squeaky car window, having them tell you to push the car off a cliff, then cheering because you don't have a squeaky car window anymore. What we need an answer for is how to delete those handful of annoying songs that won't swipe, not how to turn your phone into a silent brick.

I refuse to believe there's no solution for this.