Hard drive accidentally deleted

Hi All, happy new year! Just a couple Q's for ya... I had a "few" songs downloaded&saved to my HD, but my genius girlfriend wanted to "speed up the laptop"&since they were already on my nano. She DELETED all of my songs. Luckily thru you guys, I changed it so it didnt auto update, saving what was on. But now what? Do I need to copy/paste the library list&re-download them all? Then reset&reload the nano? It was more like a LOT of songs! Thx for any help!
D.

Ther are some third party apps which will allow you to copy music from your iPod, but it isn't a procedure supported by Apple.
If you can use your computer to 'see' invisible files then all of your iPod music will be available through your windows explorer, but in folders which are numbered rather than named, and not easily browsed through.
I'd be surprised if you could connect to iTunes and simply drag the list from your iPod back in to your iTunes library without a third party app - I would think you'll need to google on this one.

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