I lost the songs of my ipod mini

I lost the songs of my ipod mini. The settings says that I have 0 songs, but when I see the available size says that I only have 5.4 MB, so I thinks that my songs still there.
How can I recover them?
Thanks!!!

I just recently had the same problem so hopefully my solution will help you (I know how frustrating it can be to be sans iPod).
I used my USB cable to connect my iPod to my computer. I then opened up the folders in my iPod from "My Computer" (as if though it were another drive). You should see a folder called "iPod Control" or something like that. If you don't see it, it's probably because the folder is hidden.
To see it, go to "tools" at the top of the screen, "folder options", the "view" tab, click on the "show hidden files and folders" and click OK. You should see the folder now. Inside that folder are all of your songs files.
I copied all of the songs from my iPod onto my computer's hard drive. Once that was done, I followed instructions from the Apple website on how to restore my iPod. Once my iPod was restored to factory settings, I put all of the songs back onto my iPod as usual and it worked!
Hope this helps.
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