All my music is randomly gone! WHY?!

Somehow all the music on my ipod was just randomly deleted. it's all gone i don't know how it happened or why. And on itunes when i connect my ipod it shows the names of the songs i used to have...but the file itself is not on the ipod...why is it still showing on itunes but if it's been deleted from the ipod. i'm so saaad, what the **** is going on?!

If it's still in the iTunes library, first confirm your sync characteristics and then do a sync.

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