Songs and videos all disappear after sync

Since updating to the new OS, sometimes when I sync my iPod touch, all the music and videos disappear. I then have to restore and it take a long time as I have a 64GB touch and LOTS of music. It's irritating to go to listen to some music and the entire library is missing. Just started with the new OS. Any suggestions?

Mine just had this problem. I read one of the other discussions and they said it was most likely caused by Genius. Either way, I just added a song to my iPod that wasn't already on there and ta da! All music and vids were back!

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I am experiencing a very strange issue so I hope someone can help or has at least experienced this themselves.
I have my iphone set up so I manually manage/sync music ans content. For the last 2 weeks everytime I transfer music and video to my iphone it disappears after I eject the device from itunes. When transferring the content this works as expected and I can see the tracks being transferred. If I then go into my music library while the iphone is still connected to my laptop I can see and play music on the iphone.
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