Ipod touch will no longer sync my songs, they show up for a few seconds then disappear help

for some reason when I try to sync my songs to my ipod touch, they will all show up briefly, then disappear once I hit the sync button?  very frustrating, have never had this problem in the past, any suggestions would be great

If you haven't tried it yet, I'd eliminate memory issues first.  Close all of the apps with the double tap on the home button method
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5137
then restart the device.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1430
My experience has been that this fixes a lot of issues.

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