ITunes deleted the music in my iPod

I have a 3rd generation iPod touch that I've been using for years. I've been plugging my iPod in to my MacBook Air to listen to music as well as charging it for a while now, nothing has ever gone wrong.
Until one night, I decided to charge my iPod and listen to some old tunes. I listen to ONE song and it stops playing after a couple minutes in. While browsing on my computer, I switch back to iTunes window to see what's up. Next thing I know, exclamation mark starts to appear on every song I click to play.
(Now I understand about syncing, iTunes library, and purchase history...etc) I never have my iPod on in auto syncing, as a matter of fact everything is mostly, almost entirely, in manual mode.
I have my songs on my old computer's iTunes library. Basically, I don't have anything on my Air. But I figured as long as I don't sync my iPod to my Library or delete/change anything, the files will remain in my iPod. Is that wrong? Am I misunderstanding something? Why did iTunes automatically remove my music? If so, why now?
I have the 12th version iTunes, well according to the info I just looked up. Who knows what other lies are hidden. Anyways please help, please....
*The songs are gone on my iPod, but I can see the 'missing files' on my iTunes. Basically, I see my 'old music list', but it's not really there to let me listen to it. Any hope?

Also, what causes this, so I can avoid it in the future?

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