How do I sync my old ipod and save my ipad songs which are different?

Like a lot of folks, I have 4 devices that I sync with Itunes.  I have diffent songs on my ipod than on my ipad (or shuffle for that matter) and I do not want to sync the songs that are in the itunes library when it pops up (they are the songs on my ipad) but want to transfer and sync the songs currently on  my ipod to the library (without erasing the others of course)
When I tried to do this, I got the message to either "erase and sync"  which would have erased the songs on my ipod and transferred the songs in the library to the ipod, which I didn't want to do.  I forgot what the other option was but it was not the correct one either.
Bottom line:  I need to know how to sync multiple devices and each keep their own unique specific library of songs and videos.
Thank you very much,
Ben McCurdy

forgot to tell everyone I have a new laptop computer I am trying to sync to.

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