Adding music to iTunes. HELP!

Okay i go to use my remote app on my ipod touch and nothing will play so i look at my itunes library and there is a exclamation mark on all my songs and says it cant locate them but when i click to manually locate them it brings up a blank folder. So i deleted them and tried to do that restore itunes step but all that did is delete all my songs. But i still ahve all my songs on my ipod. Is there a way to add all my songs from my ipod to my library.

The exclamation means that the songs iTunes is referring to has been moved or deleted. Do you by any chance keep your songs on an external harddisk?
There is no official/legal way to transfer songs from your iPod back to your com (a pain I know). But if you really have no other choice then try googling for ways to transfer music from iPod back to com.

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Use the steps in these links to walk you through the process:
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12113 <-----if you have a Mac
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12313 <----- if you have a Windows
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I recently bought an iPod touch, and subsequently downloaded iTunes 7.7 for Windows Vista. Upon plugging my new iPod in, a good chunk of my album art collection was erased mysteriously. I tried to see if re-adding the files would work, so I removed an artist from my library. Upon my attempt to re-add the music to my library, I found that, in fact, I couldn't. How grand. I've re-installed iTunes, yet still "add folder", "add file", and the classic drag-and-drop all do nothing. Any suggestions? I find it maddeningly ironic that I bought an iPod to enjoy all my music, yet iTunes seemingly refuses to let me.

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Solution for persons such as myself; picture a white plain screen opening up in the catagory you choose (I'll use music) uncluttered no links taking you inadvetaintly to a screen pitching me something from Apple just all my music catagorized by iTunes the way in which I selected it to be by checking as many of the choices as I want that are list in the "sort" menu. Now before I hit sync at the top there are 3 empty boxes. Positioned clearly and designed by the marketing department who has every page in the store laid out clear clean and in your face making it impossible to START HERE so to speak, they'd unmistakably be simply labeled with 3 basic choices for you to choose from (a fourth "advanced" could be optional) which would be; Box#1 Do Noithing (Leave as is) Box#2 Sync from Device to iTunes Box#3 Sync from iTunes to Device . What you checked is what action iTunes would take. When you pressed "sync" a box would pop up Asking are you sure you want to it would have the selected boxes action here further assuring you wre doing as you wanted .
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Music Rescue Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
iGadget Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
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strange.
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C:\log.txt
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in the email to Roy, be sure to include the following information:
- A link to the thread on Apple Discussions where the issue is being discussed
- The username you are using in the thread
- The version of iTunes you are using or trying to use
- the version of Windows you are using (mention service packs)
- A concise description of the issue you are seeing
- The exact text of the error message you are seeing

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