How to recover lost music?

I connected my IPod to ITunes without realizing the settings had changed to 'automatic update' (I recently downloaded a new version of Itunes without setting it to manual update). So I lost almost all my music, since I recently changed computers ie my library is almost empty!!
How can I recover my lost music?!?

If there is no back up anywhere (on your other computer for instance), you are left with attemtping to recover the deleted music form the iPod.
This will require some data recovery software, and there's a post giving some options here.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=931813&#931813
You may have to spend money, and have a little computer knowledge and the results are variable.
Incidentally, since the setting to auto sync your iPod is an iPod setting and not an iTunes one, downloading and installing a new version of iTunes should not have changed anything.

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