Can i sync my ipod to a different itunes account?

I have an approximately 7 year old ipod with lots of tunes. Originally it was synced to an old desktop which has been scrapped. I now have an ipad 2 and my husband has ordered the iphone4S. We want to get the tunes from our old ipod and have them on the ipad and iphone. Any advice on how to do this? I have a Windows laptop.
Cheers,
Caroline

See this older post from another forum member Zevoneer covering the different methods and software available to assist you with the task of copying content from your iPod back to your PC and into iTunes.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2452022?start=0&tstart=0
B-rock

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