Music temporarily disappeared - What's going on?

I have a 16 GB IPod Nano 5th Generation. I have lots of playlists, and over 14 GB of music.
I brought it to the gym today, and tried to play music with my headphones, but the IPod showed that I have no music and no playlists, and no songs. I said what??!! I went into settings, then "about", and it showed I have 0 GBs of audio and about 14.2 GBs of "other". I don't know what "other" is, but it appears that is where my music went. Normally "about" shows that I have 14.2 GBs of audio, not 14.2 GBs of "other". Later I tried to play the IPod in my car but it did not play music, probably because the music had disappeared.
I went home and plugged the IPod Nano into my Apple McIntosh computer. "Device" came up and it showed things back to normal - that I had loads of songs and playlists, and I was able to play the IPod playlist songs on my computer. Then I disconnected the IPod from the computer, and checked it. It showed that I did have all these songs and playlists, which had disappeared earlier when I was in the gym. I went into settings/about and it showed that I have 14.2 GB of audio, not 0 audio and 14.2 of "other" as earlier today. So it is back to normal since I plugged the IPod into the computer.
Please advise what happened at the gym today. I think I updated recently on my computer to the latest I Tunes 10.1.1(4). That shouldn't affect my IPod when I go to the gym, should it?

One thing I should mention. I was listening on the IPod's radio in the gym before I tried to play my music from my IPod's playlists. I almost never listen to the radio on my IPod. Could listening to the IPod's radio have something to do with the problem of the disappearance of all of my songs and playlists from my IPod?

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