Music disappearing from ipod

Recently, I've had two incidents where I've turned on my ipod and all the music and photos are gone. I was able to easily resync the ipod and place the music back, but then after a few days of not using it, all the music is gone again. The battery is not low; there is plenty of space left; I'm not leaving it on or plugged into anything....Has anyone else experienced this? Or knows of a way to fix this? It happened while I was traveling and that was a bummer. - my ipod is only two years old, I would hope that it would last longer than this....Thank you!

Have you tried restoring the iPod prior to re-syncing your data?
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