Losing all of my data

I got an iPod Touch in around 2008, 2009 or 2010 and I had a 16G full of various movies, tv shows, apps and songs that I had bought. All together my items were worth HEAPS. Then a few years later my iPod just stopped working. It went black and I couldn't turn it on, it worked sometimes though but would only last a second.
I eventually gave up hope and never touched it until recently. I plugged my iPod into my computer, logged into the Apple ID I have used for this particular iPod (I got a new one when I bought another Apple product) and then held down my power button and home button. Then the sound when a USB has been plugged in came on and it took a while but it said I had to restore my iPod as it was in Recovery Mode. I looked up what that meant online and it told me to Restore it to factory settings and then Restore to backup or something along those lines. So I did, but whenever I would hold down both buttons it would straight-away stop syncing.
Eventually I waited and it finished restoring. Then I restored to backup and no new songs or videos or apps came up in my library. It seems like I've lost all of my data and I don't know what to do. I will be so upset because all of my data was worth hundreds.
Is it because I made a new account and didn't backup?
Please help me out..

The iPod backup that iTunes makes does not inlcuded synced media like aps and music.
You can redownload most iTunes purchases by:
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
If you have iOS 4.2.1 or later on the iPod and there was version compatible with that version, then you should be able to redownload a compatible version by:
App Store: Downloading Older Versions of Apps on iOS - Apple Club
App Store: Install the latest compatible version of an app
You first have to download the non-compatible version on your computer. Then when you try to purchase the version on your iPod you will be offered a compatible version if one exists.

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