All music gone from iPod Touch. iTunes says its still there.

The ⚠ means that iTunes can find the actual music file. It is not located where iTunes things it is. Try:

iTunes: Finding lost media and downloads

You can redownloa diTunes purchases by:

Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store

Yes, I would restore from backup. Note that the backup that iTunes makes does not include synced media like apps and music.

I've been experiencing this issue repeatedly with recent versions of iTunes. Each time I laboriously manually restore the music to my iPod. A week or so later, the issue occurs again.

This is an atrocious bug for those of us with iPods set to manually manage music. I would think that using manual manage would totally exclude all music files from being monkied with whenever syncing occurs.

Good luck with your restore. I have to perform another one myself today.

Just a quick update to let everyone know that this dreadful issue is still a problem with iTunes 11.0.1 and iOS 6.0.1 (iPod touch).

I second that - ever since I upgraded to IOS 6.0.1, I keep losing content on my ipod touch. Am re-syncing as I write, for about the 4th time now. Currently on 617 of 3326 songs....

Same thing has happened to me today. I didn't even put anything new into my itouch and didn't sync anything. I always have it on manual options too, but everything is gone except a couple songs and the exclamation points are everywhere. I'm disappointed in Apple. 😟 Ever since IOS6 and the new iTunes came out, things haven't been right. Everything keeps crashing and iTunes is so slow and always freezes. Very disappointed.

Same thing has been happening to me - ever since upgrading to iOS 6.0.1. I haven't figured out yet what the trigger is for it wiping my music. I do know the last few times it's happened the battery was low and I was charging it and iTunes was running.

Hi there. I have had the same problem recurring intermittently about 5 times over recent months, for no apparent reason - all my ipod touch content suddenly wiped. The only way to rebuild it is to completely restore everything - ios 6 operating software, saved backup data plus the entire itunes & iphoto content from my macbook pro. Obviously very time consuming and worrying. I eventually called apple support (I'm in the UK) and I was advised to trash itunes 11.0.1, download it again from the web and reinstall. Its only been about a week, so too soon to tell, but so far its been stable.

This is what just worked for me:

1. select iPod in list

2. go to Music and select "Selected playlists, artists, ...", then go check on ONE album

3. sync and wait for it to finish

4. Now go back to "Entire music library"

5. sync again

Now it seems to be actually COPYING the music over...

I tried this before and it still only partially copied certain music files over, but not my whole library or playlists. Doing a full restore was the only way I retrieved my setup.