Computer crash = lost music

I own one of the old iPod gumstick shuffles, and well recently my computer crashed. I replaced said computer and now when I try to connect my shuffle, it asks me if I want to erase and sync with the new iTunes library... but I want all my music off of my shuffle! Is there a way for me to get that music off of it?

It's not very clear, but are you saying that you want to move all of your current iPod contents into iTunes? If so, then you'll have to use any of a variety of 3P utilities to do that. Look into iPodRip and Senuti, two that I can think of off the top of my head.

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