Help please. Have library- no music on ipod.

The other day I downloaded a bunch of songs and something popped up and said I didn't have any more space for those songs so one of the settings changed and put all of my songs into one playlist. On the actual ipod there weren't any playlists except for one with all of my songs on it. Then I accidentally deleted that playlist on my itunes and now I don't have any music on my ipod at all. I don't know how to change or even find a way to change my itunes settings so I have music again. All of my songs are still in itunes, they just don't sync to my ipod. PLEASE HELP!!!

When your iTunes library exceeds the capacity of your iPod, iTunes will give you an option for it to make a playlist for your iPod, in your case Nano, to sync to, this is the playlist you accidentally deleted. All you have to do is make a couple of playlists in iTunes containing the music that you wish to have on your Nano. Once those playlists are made in iTunes, then dock your Nano & change its preferences to sync only those specific playlist or lists that you have just made.

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To prevent auto sync, before you connect the iPod go to the iTunes preferences and select "devices", then select "disable automatic syncing for iPhones and iPods".
An alternative method is to connect the iPod whilst holding down the 'control+shift' keys and do not let them go until your iPod appears in iTunes.
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