Itunes deleted music from my ipod AND my computer?

I noticed recently that an album (originally burned from a CD I purchased in hard copy) was missing from my ipod touch (latest gen, ios 7.0.3). I went to re-add the album from my laptop and found it was also missing from itunes. I searched the hard drive, and there was no folder for the artist or album anywhere on my computer. I thought maybe I'd accidentally deleted that one album somehow and went to grab the hard copy to re-burn it. But then I noticed that there were random songs missing from other albums, and that these were also missing entirely from their file locations on my laptop. In all, I believe around 10gb of music have disappeared from my computer and ipod, without me doing anything. This is absurd. How in the world did itunes manage to do this?? How can I get my music back? 99% was music burned from CDs, so it's not a matter of restoring itunes store purchases. I do have backups of my hard drive, but is there some way to fix this through itunes—and more to the point, a way to prevent itunes from randomly decimating my collection again?!

I've since tried restoring from the Previous Itunes Library folder, but even files that date from times when I am 100% positive the missing music existed both on my laptop and my ipod, the songs are gone. Which would make sense, if itunes somehow managed to delete the actual files from my hard drive (how?!)... Does anyone know how or why this could have happened? I believe this happened after updating to the previous version of itunes (I upgraded to 11.1.3 after noticing the missing music, in hopes that it might undo the damage, but no dice).

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- Post by Zevoneer: iPod media recovery options - https://discussions.apple.com/message/11624224 - this is an older post and many of the links are also for old posts, so bear this in mind when reading them.

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