How to move my music from my itouch back to my itunes library

i had to restore my computer so now i have no music on it. I want to move my music from my Ipod back to my Itunes on my computer. Last time i tried this i clicked sync and it just deleted all my msic off my ipod. this just seems like the dumbest thing in the world that syncing cant go both ways. Please help me

Copy everything from your backup copy of your computer.  Certainly you did not restore your computer without making sure that your backup copy of your computer was up to date.
The music sync is one way - computer to ipod.  The exception is itunes purchases.  Without syncing:  File>Transfer Purchases

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