Getting my music back onto itunes

I recently wiped out my computer to fix a win 7 upgrade issue --it wasnt reading my sound card thus sykpe not working. i reinstalled all factory back up discs and works great. about to have a meltdown tho because all of my music on my ipod does not go "back into" itunes. i transferred purchases so have those but a years worth of work installing my and daughters cd collections are not.....when i first got a new computer i wiped it all out before (because i synced it to the empty itunes,,,,i thought as long as i didnt do that i'd be ok.} i said then i'd never go thru this again, but i did, i built it all back up and now im scared to death i lost it all again. it is still all on my ipod. i have back up discs from computer but dont want to load those because im afraid i'll load the problems from the program back on. is there really no way to ever get my music back on computer. i tried a download program with no luck. will new music sync on it? God Bless you for being out there to answer!!!:D

You will need third-party software to transfer your content from your iPod back into iTunes. There are many such utilities, so if the one you tried didn't work, try something else. Check out this post from Zevoneer for some media recovery options:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10570955#10570955
Regards.

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