I reset iPod Touch (4G) and now everything is gone!

Hi all,
Last night, my iPod Touch (4th gen.) froze, which rarely happens, so I reset it. I probably didn't mean to do that, but that's what I did. Driving to work this morning, I see that there are no songs and no videos (I have about 3500 songs in my library). My apps are there and my emails are there.
I'm not worried if I can easily sync when I get home (everything's backed up and everything's in iTunes), but can someone tell me what happened? I thought a reset wasn't supposed to delete data. I'm a little worried.
Thanks for any help or comfort you can provide!

If this was the reset you did:
Reset iPod touch: Press and hold the On/Off Sleep/Wake button and the Home
button at the same time for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
Then it should not have deleted the music. However, the freezing may have been an indication that there is was something corrupt on the iPod. I would restore the iPod from backup. Make sure that auto-syncing when connected is turned off otherewise iTunes will make a new backup and delete the old one.

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