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(This probably isn't a simple, obvious fix—I'm a pretty technical guy.)
Okay, so I have a 4th generation 64 GB ipod touch running iOS 6.1.3, and a 2011 15" MacBook Pro running OS Lion (10.7.4) and iTunes 10.6.3. I have about 20 GB of music, all of which I keep synced onto my iPod (except a couple unchecked songs). I have a huge iPhoto library out of which about 6 GB gets copied to my iPod. I have around 70 GB of movies, out of which I had synced around 20 GB to my iPod. Plus I had about 8 GB of audiobooks.
All of this was already on my iPod and was working fine. Occasionally slow, but no particular glitches and all the music and videos were THERE. My iPod only had about 1.5 GB of free space.
(If it makes a difference, I always sync via cable, never via WiFi, and I don't use iCloud.)
A couple days ago, for no obvious reason (no changes I could recall), the "other" category of usage on my iPod, as seen via iTunes, jumped from around 1.8 GB to about 47 GB. Then iTunes complained that it "couldn't sync" with my iPod, because there wasn't enough space. (I hadn't added anything, except for having updated a couple small apps on the iPod directly via WiFi.)
I didn't bother trying to fix it until I found that my music on the iPod was all messed up—nothing showed up under "artists", "albums", "audiobooks" and all "playlists" were empty—there was just a full list under "songs". But when I tried shuffling, only 360 songs showed up instead of the 4000-some I had. (And to make things weirder, when I tapped on another song in the list, I then had 361 songs in shuffle.)
I looked online in several places and finally concluded the giant "other" usage might have been from an interrupted sync. (Although I don't recall interrupting any sync—whatever.) So I unchecked all my music, videos and audiobooks (just with the big, overall checkboxes on the iPod syncing panels in iTunes). The "usage" chart on iTunes then showed that the iPod would be nearly filled with the "other" data (47 GB or so) but it wouldn't be over capacity. I clicked "apply", and after around a 15 minute sync, the "other" came back down to about 2 GB.
This is where things went south.
When I rechecked the music (skipping the videos and audiobooks because I was in a hurry to get my music on there), first iTunes recopied all my photos one by one—not sure why; I never actually deleted them (although I had unchecked the box and checked it again while seeing how to free up space for "other"). Then, nothing.
I've tried about 8 more times to sync all my music, or just part of my music, or any of my videos. iTunes goes through the whole sync process but copies nothing. Says "sync complete" or whatever it says. No music or video on my iPod. I tried restarting my computer and restarting my iPod, after closing all active apps. No go. I even tried restoring the iPod from the last backup—(which, of course, was a backup from after the trouble had started, since iTunes doesn't give me a choice to keep earlier backups when it syncs). That affected exactly nothing.
I am at a total loss for what to do here. Any ideas at all? Or any details I should add (ha ha)?
Please help!

An "other" that large usually indicates that the "other" includes corrupted files. Usually restoring from backup eliminated the corrupted files. However, sometimes restoring to factory settings/new iPod is required.
To restore from backup see:
iOS: How to back up
To restore to factory settings/new iPod see:
iTunes: Restoring iOS software

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