No music on ipod but memory is almost full

I have a 30gb ipod photo that I recently connected to itunes to transfer music. I specifically had itunes set to NOT sync my ipod b/c I had more music on my ipod than itunes. For some reason it began to sync, I quickly stopped it but all my music was lost from my ipod. Now the strange thing is my settings show that I only have 1.6gb available for use. Does this mean the music might still be there or is this just a glitch in the ipod and I have to reset it?
Any help would be appreciated.

When I open up my first generation Shuffle, I get the
usual screen with my playlist, but when I delete all
the songs from my list, the memory bar on the bottem
says that "284.1 MB used out of 203.5".
And the list is empty, I dont understand. I re-set
the shuffle and stuff, and still this is happening.
Because it'll show actual space used when you put something back on it... don't sweat the small stuff.

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