How do I store music on an external hard drive?

My mother in law bought my daughter an ipod and has loaded up 700+ kid's songs on it from her itunes. We don't live in the same city and we would like to burn the library to our external hard drive so we can back it up or add to it from home. My husband is out of town, and he usually handles these things...I am afraid I am not to savvy. Any help would be most apprecited!
Thanks in advance!

For Windows, it's probably easiest to get a 3rd-party iPod manager to get music from the iPod onto a computer's hard drive (or an exHD).
I've seen yamipod mentioned, as well as others, MediaMonkey and WinAmp, but can't recommend any since I've never had to use it. Here is a wiki on iPod managers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparisonof_iPodmanagers

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