Itunes deleting music off my iPod on its own

So I was noticing that I would add an album to my iPod from my iTunes and then after a little bit the songs would just be gone from my iPod.
Not sure whats causing it, but basically I stared at my iTunes looking at the amount of free space of my iPod and I would notice the amount of free space increase suddenly, meaning something would just be deleted.

I left the syncing link out of my first reply. Are you following these instructions?
iTunes: Syncing media content to iOS devices and iPod
Are you syncing manually? Automatically?
Do the new songs sync to the iPod but the ones on the iPod disappear?

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