I think i lost all my songs...

So my ipod(4G) kept spazzing, like just cycling through a bunch of songs without playing them, so i tried to restart it, the whole toggle the hold switch back and forth and then hold down play and the center button like I've done before... but when it came back on all my music and setting were gone. But when i looked at my settings under the "About" section where it usually says how many songs are on it and the serial number and the name and all that stuff, it said that it had 0 songs, 18.5 gb capacity, but only 6 gb were available, which was the same as before all the songs disappeared. so something has to still be on my ipod right? What's going on with that? can i get my songs back?

This sounds like a corrupt hard drive. This doesn't mean to say that the songs aren't still there though (hence the used space), just that the ipod cannot read them.
A restore then reloading the songs from iTunes usually cures this.

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