HT4527 i am trying to transfer new downloads from my iphone to my pc itunes page. having trouble, and i don't have enough space to explain. old itunes card purchases on pc are showing up on my iphone, but not the opposite.

Question

I bought an ipod a few years ago and used a few itunes cards to purchase downloads (music only).  Then, i started copying cd's to my computer and they also showed up on my itunes pages.  nonetheless, i started making playlists.  in the meantime, there was a balance of $6.96 on my account, and i was not able to use the balance to redeem because i lost the itunes card it came from (who would've thought i needed to save the card)...anyway, fine, i recently purchased an iphone.  Well, i have purchased a few new itunes cards and have downloaded about ten songs off itunes from my phone to my phone in my phone.  Okay, now i am home, and i want to see about getting things in order, ie, making playlists, etc, but including of course the music i already have on the pc in its itunes page.  mass confusion for a nontechnological person.  i think it's possible, like, to transfer from iphone to pc, and then from pc to iphone, and to coordinate songs from one to the other, but i have no idea how to do this.  so, i am researching, and i am finding support here and there, but my device isn't even showing up on the left hand side when i bring up itunes on my computer!  so, there is no way to transfer anything!
HELP!

Answer 1

First thing Suzanne, I've asked the hosts to remove your email address it's not a good idea to place it in a thread, robots will pick it up and use it to spam you, it's much better to put it in your profile and tell people in your thread that it's there.
Not so sure about the second issue without more info, but as to the first matter, pictures you take on your phone are saved to your phone, they are not saved to iCloud, there is no way around this only to move your pictures to a computer regularly to free up more space.