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So I moved to the north west left my computer which my ipod was sync to and now using a new computer. So when I started to use itunes for the 1st time it asked me if I wanted to sync and I said yes...LIke a dummy...Does this mean all my previous music is lost for good??? PLEASE HELP

Sorry i'm new to this forum, not knowing how to create my own post i'm using this topic to raise my question since i experience similar problem. This is the first time i've used itune, songs were imported into my ipod from another computer, now i'm using itune from a new computer so there were no existing songs in itune playlist to sync.
1. my Itune doesn't seem to work properly, it doesn't play the songs in my ipod, sometimes playing a song will make it disappear from the list, other times it wun respond.
2. i accidentally cleared about one third of my songs from my ipod when i selected them all and 'cleared' it from itune. i wasn't able to retrieve it any way and when i disconnected my ipod from pc trying to find if its still in it, contents have been emptied.
3. when i reconnected my ipod back to pc i went to the drive property to find the memory used up remained the same before i cleared anything from my ipod. Does this mean the songs are still in my ipod somehow.
Is there anyway i can recover the lost data(from estimation, 300 odd songs were gone)???
Really appreciate if you could help!!
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