HELP ME LISTEN TO OLD SONGS!

I had itunes installed on my family computer for years and once i got my own laptop i had my own. I had my ipod to manually sync so that when I plugged it in the songs already on my ipod would not delete and just have what is now on my new itunes. this whas working fine for months upon months. lasst week however all the songs from my old itunes are appearing grey in my music folder on my actual ipod and they all have alerts on my itunes and wont play at all. how do i get those songs to be available to play again like they were before. they are all there just unlistenable(is that a word?) please help!

iPods (that are not iPod touch) are not directly linked to any "account."  They are associated with your iTunes library.  The account in iTunes is your Apple ID, which is used to purchase and download content from the iTunes Store.  It lets the iTunes Store know who you are when you sign in.
Songs that are currently sold by the iTunes Store do not use DRM (copy protection).  However, songs purchased during the earlier days of the iTunes Store do use DRM.  If you have such songs that were purchased using a previous Apple ID (not your current Apple ID), you need to authorize your computer for that previous Apple ID.
Find one of the songs that does not play due to this problem.  Right-click on it in any iTunes list, and select Get Info.  On the song's Info window Summary tab, look for Apple ID.  That is the Apple ID used to purchase this song.
From the iTunes menu bar, under Store, select Authorize This Computer.  In the dialog window that appears, enter that Apple ID used to make the old song purchases (plus password).  Do not enter your current Apple ID and password.  Click Authorize.
The computer is now authorized for BOTH your old Apple ID and your current Apple ID.

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