My itunes is so horribly screwed up...

After my computer hard drive crashed i lost my itunes. Following another tutorial i backed up everything on my ipod and restored it to original settings. After that when i went to set it up again using the backup it goes through the process and when it's done all i have on my ipod is my old pictures. It didn't give me my music or apps back. To make matters worse, every song on my itunes can't be located so i cant play them, also when i go to my ipod from itunes, it just wants me to restore it again, which i have done multiple times. Can anybody help me?

Backups of iDevices have never included media.
The media should be in the iTunes library on the computer.
Use the backup of the computer to put all the media back. Not sure where you got the idea that wiping and restoring an iDevice would magically put the media back in iTunes, but as you've found out, it does not.
If the content was purchased from iTunes, it should be possible to redownload the content.
Downloading past purchases from iTunes.

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