Music Gone in iPhone 3S

Just updated to iTunes 11.1 on my OS X 10.8.5, 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo iMac. After wireless sync with my iPhone 3s on IOS 6.1.3, 95% of my music disappeared. I'm currently running a wired sync and it's copying the music to the device. #1. Why did this happen? #2. Why is is re-copying the music library when all that was changed was the file index? Anyone got any ideas?

This was most likely a problem with the last sync, whenever that was. The music was still on the iPhone, but the directory structure was misbehaving. If a regular sync does not correct it, you'll need to do a Restore.

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hi
ok, so, i just bought some new music from itunes over iphone 3g this morning, and i thought it'd be a good idea to create a playlist with it all (purchased music)
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I've worked out why my songs wouldn't download, you'd moved it all to iCloud. In the process, losing over 300 songs. Now I know I had a fair amount of illegal downloads in my itunes but who gave you permission to go in there and delete them? not really on that is it? plus you've deleted songs that i'd put on from CD! what's all that about? I actually went through the effort of buying a CD (a very old fashioned way these days, you probably send songs via thought waves at head office) which i've paid for and since that time got rid of the CD thinking my songs would be safe. You don't know how cross I am.
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