Ipod Mini - music disappeared, does nothing

I bought an ipod mini fall of 2004, right away it had issues...in the first month it, I turned it on one day and all of my music was gone. I sent it back to Apple thinking it was the battery...they found nothing. then of course it was fine through the rest of the warranty and one year and one month later, it lost all music again and when plugged in, just shows the apple. wont do anything alt all now...
I had put it in a drawer for the past 9 months, as I couldnt deal with getting another apple brand lemon.
is it the battery or worse? thanks...

The exact same thing happened to me. One day I went to turn on my ipod mini and all my music was gone.
So I thought, "Oh, I'll just connect it to my computer again to get all the songs back."
Well for some reason it wouldn't connect. It still says
"Do not diconnect." but nothing happens. it just sits there for hours without poping up onto my itunes.
Windows XP

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