After syncing iPod says no music

Hi, hope you can help.. I have tried syncing my ipod classic with my lovely new iMac, and although it all appears to have synced (on computer screen), on my ipod it does say that 80gb have been used up (size of music library), but it comes under 'Other' and not music or podcasts and cannot see the content at all. I have tried this three times now, and made sure all software is updated to no avail.. Hope somebody can help before I chuck my ipod out of the window!!!!

Please dont chuck it out of the window, it might land on some poor elves.
Do the iPod Disk Diagnostic as posted earlier by tt2, it wont fix your problem but help in troubleshooting.

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2 After repeating this process a few times, I decided instead to delete my entire iTunes library, wipe the disk partition it sits on completely clean and restore a fresh iTunes music folder from a backup
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Try syncing using the manual method
Managing content manually on iPhone, iPad, and iPod
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After syncing iPod says no music

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