ITunes cannot find the music on my iPod?

Ok, so I am asking this question for a family member. She plugged her iPod into her computer, windows 7 i believe, with iTunes updated. It is an iPod touch 4th gen 32 gb running iOS 6.1.6. The problem she had, was her music disappeared. You know the little ! in a circle that appears when iTunes can't locate a song in your library? well it's appearing on about 90% of her music on her iPod music, not iTunes library. The files have seemed to delete themselves. Has anyone had this problem before, and what did you do to fix it if you were able to fix it? She does not have immediate access to a lot of the music she lost on her iPod, and would like to solve this problem asap! A quick restore will not fix this problem. Also, what can be done to avoid this?

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