Have old iPhone 2011 need to transfer music onto imac

i have an old i phone 3g about 4 years old i use it as a i pod how can i get music transfered to i tunes on my i mac

Your i-device was not designed for unique storage of your media. It is not a backup device and media transfer was planned with you maintaining a master copy of your media on a computer which is itself properly backed up against loss. To use a device with a new computer you transfer the content from the old computer (or its backup) directly to the new computer, not the device to the new computer. Syncing is one way, computer to device, updating the device content to the content on the computer, not updating or restoring content on a computer. The exception is iTunes Store purchases which can be transferred to a computer.
iTunes Store: Transferring purchases from your iOS device or iPod to a computer - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1848 - only purchases from iTunes Store
For transferring other items from an i-device to a computer you will have to use third party commercial software. See this document by turingtest2: Recovering your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device - https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3991

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My old computer recently crashed, with it my iTunes. I have my iPod Nano (3G) and I was wondering if there is a way to move the music on my iPod to the iTunes. All of the music on my iPod was not always purchased on the iTunes store. Help!

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With respect to backup, you were on the right track. And I am not going to fault you for iCloud , but it is not really a system level backup facility. And I would say the lightning comes under natural disaster. Off-site can be taking a backup disk to a friend/family/office at work/bank safety deposit box, but somewhere that is not next door and is not in the same flood plain. Or it can be a true cloud backup service (CrashPlan, Mozy, Carbonite, SugarSync, etc...). NOTE: CrashPlan can be used in "Free" mode to backup across the net to a computer you control, or a friend/family members computer. Just arrange to locate some storage there. You can reverse the favor by hosting their CrashPlan backups on your system.
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Bear with me. My grandson is helping with this. I am too old for it.
Dude! While I don't have any, my "Younger" sister is a "Grandmother"! You can do anything if you want to. And you seem to be doing very will.
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Copy eveything from the old computer or your backup copy of your old computer.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1848 Did you transfer your purchased item, take a look at the link

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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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I have an itunes account. However, I need to copy music onto a different iPod than my own. How do I do that? Do I need to create a separate iTunes account for that iPod?

An account means an iTunes Store account which is an online service. Do you mean that, or do you mean a library on a computer?
iOS devices can only be synced to one iTunes library at a time. You can sync that iPod to your account but it will wipe everything currently on it.
iTunes: Syncing media content to iOS devices and iPod - http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201253 - detailed example: https://discussions.apple.com/message/18860187#18860187
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To contact Apple support and tell them you no longer have your iPhone and need to turn off iMessage.
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if when you see the music as shown on your computer contains a dot next to the song/artist, it means that it has not yet successfully transferrred over, outside of your computer. Some questions to consider: what is the format of the music you are trying to import? are you running this most updated version of itunes/ipod on your comp.?

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Have old iPhone 2011 need to transfer music onto imac

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