Itunes erased my iphone songs

it's rediculos that itunes sync led to erasing all my songs in the iphone. This is a real flaw in itunes!
Senuti gave directions to sync, but why cant itunes have a backup of the songs of the iphone, if it had to erase my stuff on the phone
how do i recover my files? please help

If the music was purchased you can download the music again from your iTunes account. If the music was ripped from CD's you will have to rip the CD's again. If you got the music from your friends contact your friends. Also consider doing backups once in a while.

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