What happened to music/playlists

I just did a restore from a back up. All of my apps, pictures, contacts, etc restored except my music! What happened to it? Please help!!!

Correct.
When syncing music, your selected playlists, genres, and artists under the Music tab for your iPhone sync preferences with iTunes would be pre-selected when restoring your iPhone with iTunes from your iPhone's backup. When restoring as a new iPhone or not from your iPhone's backup, all you need to do is reselect the playlists, artists, genres under the Music tab for your iPhone sync preferences with iTunes followed by a sync to re-transfer your selected content, which is the same for all other selections under the various tabs for your iPhone sync preferences with iTunes. The reason all your apps were re-transferred automatically after restoring your iPhone with iTunes from your iPhone's backup is because you have Sync Apps selected under the Apps tab for your iPhone sync preferences.
When manually managing music and videos, you must manually select the music and videos you want re-transferred to your iPhone after restoring your iPhone with iTunes.
Since the iPhone doesn't support disk mode as with most iPods which doesn't allow for transferring selected iTunes content to the iPhone from an iTunes library on multiple computers, there isn't much benefit to manually managing music and videos with an iPhone.

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