Sync cleared iPod of all music

I have been trying to synce new songs on my ipod for two days. Had no issues before. Now when I plug it in to MAC it wipes the ipod clean of all the music. Then when I go to sync again, it says that my ipod is corrupted and I need to restore to factory. So I restore to factory and try to sync. First of all it takes over 4 hours to sync when it usually takes less than 30 minutes to synce 7000 songs. So it finally syncs and then when I go to play music on the ipod like on a playlist, it will play a song and then when it goes to the next it shows only 2 seconds of music but nothing plays and it keeps going to the next song until some music plays. The album cover is displayed and the song but nothing will play. I have to fast forward until it has a song that it can play. It's like the label is there but there is no content. So I go to synce ipod again and it wipes clean the ipod and I do this all over again. All the music in my itunes library plays fine, just won't fully synce to ipod and play on the ipod.

Everytime I try to sync it says "songs on the ipod cannot be synced because all of the playlists selected to sync no longer exist." I was wondering if you could help me please as soon as possible.

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