How do I get music form my 3 gen iPod to my computer?

So here is the deal.  I loaded music onto my iPod Touch (pretty sure it is a 3G as I cannot upgrade past IOS Version 4) then upgraded my iTunes player when the latest upgrade came out.  Some how during this operation several of my albums got erased off my computer.  I looked everywhere and nothing, and wouldn't you know I don't back up my music.  I discovered some of my missing albums on my iPod but when I sync to my computer the music does not move from iPod to my computer.  I tried to activate iCloud on my iPod that is when I discovered my iPod cannot run IOS Version 6.
So my question is this: is there a way a way to transfer musc from my iPod to my laptop?  I have looked everywhere and have found nothing and had resolved myself to never deleting the songs from my iPod but I thought I would try these forums as a last ditch effort.

Bummer!
Well, check out the answer from Ianfca on this link....solutions for both PC and Mac are included in the answer provided in that post. Hope one of them works for you! Here's the link:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15505544#15505544
Cheers,
GB

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