Ipod lost music

lost itunes on computer. put disk back in to reload when i pluged in ipod all music was gone on both ipod and itunes. but the free space on the bottom of the page was still the same. i used to have 650songs on ipod. now i put 350songs back on but ipod says its full no more room for songs.what to do how do i find my old songs and get them to go back to ipod???? please help anyone

Chris, to get back the space on your iPod, you will have to restore it:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60983
The reason you both lost your music is probably because you have the iPod set to auto-update. When you plugged into a new computer with an empty library it automatically updated your iPod library to the new (empty) one. The only way to get the music back is to update it on the original computer again.
If you want to plug into other computers, go to the iPod prefs in iTunes and select MANUAL UPDATE. Now when you plug your iPod into a computer you have to manually drag-and-drop songs onto your iPod library or hit delete to delete songs.

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