Changed account name--lost songs in itunes

I changed the name on my account, and all my music files from i-tunes went with the other account. I was wondering if i plugged in my i-pod into my mac now, if that it will delete everything from my i-pod and just have the songs that are in my i-tunes now, or if it would just add the new songs?
Please some one help with this

I'm a PC user, but it sounds like your new account will have come with a set of empty user folders:- desktop, documents, music library, etc. Unless you deliberately wiped the old account, and all the files associated with it, your old iTunes library should still be on your computer somewhere. You should be able to track it down and move it to the equivalent location for your current account. When you start up iTunes your old libray should then appear. The alternative is start your new/current version of iTunes and re-import all the tracks from wherever they are hiding just now. If your old workspace is trashed and you can't recover the tracks from it then you'll want to look at something like Zevoneer's post in this thread.
tt2

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