Changing info on songs in your Device Music folder...

I have a bunch of music in my music library (933 songs) 886 of which are on my iPhone 4, in the music folder/area under "Devices"
After connecting my iphone today to hopefully add more music, I synched and detached my iPhone and noticed my iPhone now only had 455 songs. The other 330 or so, just randomly disapeared. I don't know how or why, they just vanished. When I click on one of them in my iPhone device music section, they have a exclamation point and you cannot do anything to interact with them. You cannot "Find location" or anything like that. It is simply, a useless thing.
Now can someone please tell me what happened, and why it is not playing in my device music folder where it shows it being, or why it is gone from my phone.

Are all the tracks present in the library? If so backup the device and then immediately restore it from the backup.
tt2

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