Oh dear, wiped all my content - is there any hope?

Firstly, I have had a little look around and not found an answer so apologies if I am repeating problems that others have come with & been solved (hopefully!).
I accidentally deleted my entire library from my pc. I thought, never mind, I'll manually transfer from my i-pod. I plugged it and started reading up on how to do it and the next thing I knew the pc had synced to the i-pod and wiped my entire content, years of content.
Firstly, can people tell me if there's any way that I can get this all back via pc or i-pod? I didn't 'save files for later', sadly
I have got some of the music on my pc (the much reviled windows 8, not a mac), so is that the next best thing and how do I do that?
I am usually quite tecchie but having the most awful week with things like this.... Thanks for any help!

If the iPod was synced to an empty iTunes library, its previous content is gone.
On the PC, there is hope, depending on what happened to cause your iTunes library to be deleted. If you can provide more details on what you did to delete your songs, it would be helpful.
Run Windows Explorer, and go through this path of folders. (Your startup drive is usually C:\)
C:\ -> Users -> [your user name] -> My Music -> iTunes -> iTunes Media
In the iTunes Media folder, there are folders for the types of iTunes content. For songs, look in Music, which will have sub-folders organized by Artists, and then by Album. If you see all of this, and can find your songs in these folders, then your songs are still on your hard drive.
You can add them to your new iTunes library. But before you do that, more info on how this happened may allow you to get your old iTunes library back.

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