How do I sync music on iPad *back* to an iTunes library on a Mac?

Dear folks,
My iPad has an assortment of (legal!) music on it from a variety of sources, manually transferred in. I'd like to port that back to a single library in iTunes on my desktop Mac so that I have a backup of my music library as it exists on the iPad in case of loss (heaven forbid) or having to reset the iPad (which has already happened once!)
Is there a way to do this, either with the normal iTunes tools or via an app from the App Store?
thanks!
pax / Ctein

i was just pointing you in the right direction
thanks for the star and ... happy computing !
JGG

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