I can see less than 5 percent of my music from the iTunes 12 on my Macbook Air.  What could I have changed to lose almost everything?

Here are the stats:  From my Mac Mini where I keep physical copies of everything: 43 genres, 706 artists, 1477 albums, 17719 songs.  On my Macbook (same new version of iTunes) 9 genres, 52 artists, 59 albums and 611 songs.  What could I have done to make my iCloud content invisible and inaccessible?  I paid up and the setup looks normal.
The system is completely up-to-date running all of the latest available versions and patches for IOS X 10.10.2
Help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Joe

See this older post from another forum member Zevoneer covering the different methods and software available to assist you with the task of copying content from your iPod back to your PC and into iTunes.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2452022?start=0&tstart=0
As you will have discovered, the music sync is only one way, from iTunes to the iPod, minus iTunes purchases.  On top of that, an iPod is designed to sync with only one iTunes library at a time.
B-rock

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