Help! I've lost all my music

Help! I've lost all my music! I moved abroad and copied all of my cds to my new ipod touch 3rd. Old computer stored in states. Now I'm in Italy with a new laptop. and when I signed decided to down an app, i had to reinstall itunes, not only did i fail to get app, all my old downloads except one recent purchase (not downlad)  are gone. Help! 40 years of music, much of it no longer available. Took weeks to down all.

There is nothing you can now except sync/restore the iPod on the old computer.  An iPod can only sync to one iTunes library/computer.  If you sync the iPod to another library, iTunes will erase the iPod and replace its contents with what is in the itunes library of new computer.

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    I'd go through the directions in the following article, which provides steps to help you find missing media in iTunes:
    iTunes: Finding lost media and downloads
    http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1408
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    Media can be restored from the backup that should be kept of your important files.  If you do not have a backup, that is not good.
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    If the new music is playing, that would lead me to suspect that the old music was in fact not recovered.

  • My computer broke and i lost all my music but the music is still on my ipod how do i fix this?

    please help me...
    my computer broke and i lost all my music but the music is still on my ipod how do i fix this?

    Also See Here for using your iPod to put your Music back on your Computer:
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1296
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1848
    http://www.apple.com/support/ipodtouch/syncing/
    Cheers,

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