Music onto new computer

My old PC is no longer useable, and therefore the only access I have to the music in on my ipod. I really need to transfer the music back onto my ipod, does anyone know how to do this? I have tried the obvious copy and paste from iTunes folder, however this does not seem to work.

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MacMuse, "Computer Crashed" #3, 11:48pm Feb 7, 2005 CDT

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