IPod music got deleted, freaking out here

Today was the first time I plugged my iPod into my macbook since updating to iTunes 11 (huge mistake). I added a few albums to it, then ejected.
After ejecting, I look at it, and where is music? Nowhere to be seen. All of it, GONE. 86gb of music, most of which I can't get back since I just moved to a new country and all my albums are back home.
Now, the weird thing is, the iPod says there's 86gb of files in it, but in Other. What the **** happened?
Please, someone help me... this is absolutely shattering me

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Today was the first time I plugged my iPod into my macbook since updating to iTunes 11 ....I added a few albums to it, then ejected.
After ejecting, I look at it, and where is music? Nowhere to be seen.
So are you saying that the music already on your iPod was not in your iTunes Library - that you have deleted that music from the Library and then allowed your iPod to Sync with a Library that only has the new added music?
If so, I don't think there is anything you can do until you have access to the albums at home.
The idea of iTunes is that you put all your music into the iTunes Library and then allow a Sync of the iPod with your iTunes to make a copy of what is in iTunes. If you make a change to the Library, a subsequent Sync will synchronise (copy those changes) onto your iPod.

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