Hard Drive Fried - No Data Recovered - No Back-Up - How to recover iTunes

Yes, I should be backing up, but failed to do so. My hard drive crashed and our Apple techs could not recover anything from the hard drive. New hard drive installed. Unfortunately, I am having difficulty identifying information on how to upload my iPhone music, podcasts, etc. to the newly downloaded iTunes on the new hard drive. Seen posts for when data was recovered, but not how to use iPhone to replace what was lost on a fried hard drive.
Thanks.

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