HT201272 retreving music not purchased from i tunes

HI
Would love to have a bit of help recently got a new pc and dowloaded i tunes all my music came up  i connected my i phone 4 and all the music i downloaded from my cd collection was deleted and i only have my i tunes purchases any ideas how i can get my downloads back please

Let me get this straight. You didn't transfer the contents from your old PC to the new one?  When you say "download" this implies you are getting it off the net, i.e. re-downloading the purchases from iTunes.  When you sync with a device the sync is one way; the device gets synced to the computer and gets updated according to the content on the computer (which in this case did not include the other content you did not put on from a backup).  What I think is the situation now is all your CD music is now gone and you will have to rip them again.

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