I suddenly lost all but 1 song (lost 1000 songs) tonight!

I suddenly lost all but 1 song (lost 1000+ songs and a number of videos!) tonight! My ipod touch died so I went and charged it. A few hrs later I went to turn on some music but all but one song was gone! What can I do?? I am away from home for a few days, so I can not hook it up to itunes. Will everything go back on once I do? Or is there something I can do now? Has this happened suddenly to anyone before?!?!?

Things like that can happen when the battery dies, If you are in the USA and have the latest iOS you can redownload iTunes purchases on the iPod via iCloud beta. Otherwise, you will have to wait and sync/restore your iPod when you get home.
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I have a library of nearly 2000 songs and all of which were purchased/downloaded in their entirety. It seems that after one of the iTunes updates… many (not all, but plenty) of those songs were “cut off” after playing about 2/3 through them… I haven’t gone through the entire library to see which are complete and which were cut off, but hoped this is “known problem” and hopefully with a known “fix”… Make sense?
Please advise…
Thx,
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Hi,
I recently had a crash with my Macbook Pro. Hence I had to go back to my 1 year back TimeMachine backup. Which means my ITunes had to go back 1 year in time loosing all my downloaded songs and apps. Adding to this I connected my IPod Touch to my Macbook Pro. When the sync happened I was asked for the apple ID and password to sync my apps and songs to the ITunes in my Macbook Pro (I got a popup saying I had to authorise this computer else the data in IPod Touch would be deleted). I had to click on Forgot Password as I had forgotten my apple ID. Now happened the worst ever thing of all these. Most of the downloaded apps and songs and app data stored are removed from my iPod Touch too. Now even after authorising the computer I do not see the apps and songs which I had downloaded and moved to my IPod touch. I wish I had not synced my IPod touch after the restore from TimeMachine backup.
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Thank you Illaass,
Sorry for the delay in replying. I've not yet tried these.
I'm still depressed due to the loss of all that I stored in my IPod Touch. At least apple should have programmed it so that the apps and data get deleted only after getting a confirmation from me (only when I click yes). The current software programmed seem to be stupid because I just I clicked on Forgot password and that's not a crime so that it removes all the data.
Thank you still for helping.

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