Help ive lost my music collection

Can anyone tell me how to put the content of my I pod classic onto a laptop,it used to be on a desktop which we no longer have,didnt think to back it up as i thought the i pod was a storage device,i have i tunes on the laptop and it lets me keep the purchased items but not anything from my cd collection,please help

Not directly but you can sync to an iTunes equipped computer and then sync to the iPad...unless you have single-use tunes which cannot be shared.

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