Computer crashed had to reinstall itunes

This may sound stupid but I had to get a new hard drive and so all of my songs from iTunes are gone now that I reinstalled it. What I'm wondering is that if I hook my iPod up to the computer if all of my songs will be deleted off of it since none of them are in iTunes?

Nevermind, found a previous post that answered my question.

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