Computer crashed. Have new computer, but don't want to lose all the music I've put into my IPOD. How do I transfer the music that is in my IPOD to the new computer. All instructions found so far have to have old computer to do transfer.

Computer crashed. Need to transfer music from IPOD to new computer. All support found requires transfer from old computer. Not possible. Can I transfer music from IPOD to new computer. Don't want to lose the music I've got.

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
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