I cant bring my songs through my Itouch from my other computer

I have songs on my itouch from my orignal computer downstairs. I have recently gotten a laptop with itunes and have put songs onto that. But when i want to bring those old songs onto my laptop im not allowed or it wont let me. When i say transfer purcheses it doesnt have the songs i want. And for some od reason i got a song i have never purchased.

The transfer purchases:
iTunes Store: Transferring purchases from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod to a computer
only transfer iTunes purchases to the computer.
To transfer music not purchased from iTunes to the coomputer you need a third-party program like one of those discussed here:
Copy music from Ipod to new computer...: Apple Support Communities
Note that you can only sync with one iTunes library. To manage music among different computers see:
Using iPhone, iPad, or iPod with multiple computers

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Welcome to the Apple Discussions!!!
When the window comes saying "The ...iPod is synced with another iTunes library...do you want to..." Just hit cancel. Your iPod is now set to "manually manage movies and songs"
Now you can drag and drop whatever songs you want onto your iPod. I would go ahead and set the setting on the other computer to "manually manage..." also in order for it not to erase the songs you put on there from the other computer.
You can go to Devices>iPod>Settings There are four options toward the bottom of the page. One of those is "manually...." Check that box.

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Hello All-
When I recently synced my ITouch with ITunes, I noticed a difference between the number of songs. My OCD kicked in and I began to investigate. I noticed there were around 30 extra songs on my ITouch, all with the little ICloud icon next to them. The songs consisted of the following - a few were doubles of songs I had recently purchased, a few were songs that I had purchased but then deleted from my ITunes and the rest were from a U2 album that I never would have downloaded and scarily feel that it was forced upon me by Apple.
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To only show songs downloaded tot he iPod (no cloud icon), go to Settings.iTunes and App Store and turn off Show All.
If yo want to permently remove the U2 songs see:
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inboardshooter wrote:
My laptop totally failed and is now in pieces. I want to transfer all my songs to our desktop from my Ipod. I know how to do that but I was wondering if there is a program that maintains all the information from the songs, I really don't want to go through almost 1000 songs and enter all the information. I have tried Copytrans and Ipod2PC, but so far I don't think they can do that. And a lot of my songs are in the WAV format, so support for that would be needed too.
*Recover media from iPod*
Check out this post from Zevoneer for some iPod recovery options.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6273675&#6273675
You might struggle with the wav format songs as you will need a tool that interogates the iPod's library rather than just examining the files & their tags since (as I'm sure you're aware) wav's don't have tags.
tt2

I recently got a new computer and installed itunes, i connected my ipod and it has some songs that i downloaded legally from my other computer, if i sync my ipod..will i lose the songs downloaded? thanks

yeah please answer the question..i downloaded songs on my other computer and they are on my ipod but do not show up on my itunes because they are not downloaded..will i lose the songs if i sync my ipod?

Yes.
You need to copy everything from your old computer, or your backup copy of your old computer, to your new one.
You can transfer itunes purchases from your ipod: File>transfer Purchases

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Ciao.
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So basically 12 out of the 16 songs showed up on my computer in the music file but I am missing 4 songs and I dont know how to get them off my itouch but I just need to know how to sync all of my songs onto my comouter off of Itunes. And im using a pc if that matters

Hello DrPerry07,
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
For more information, take a look at:
Downloading past purchases from the iTunes Store, App Store, and iBooks Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519
Using iTunes 11 or later
Open iTunes. (You can download the latest version of iTunes.)
If you're not already signed in, choose Store > Sign In and type your Apple ID and password.
If you're in the iTunes Store, click the Library button, in the upper-right corner, to go to your library.
Make sure that you have "Show iTunes in the Cloud Purchases" enabled in your iTunes preferences by going to iTunes > Preferences in the Store tab and clicking OK.
In your iTunes library, click the content type you wish to download using the content selector in the upper-left. Choose Music to download music, Movies to download movies, and so on.
Locate the item or title you wish to download.
Click the download icon to download that item.
iTunes Store: Transferring purchases from your iOS device or iPod to a computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1848
To transfer iTunes Store purchases from your device to a computer, follow these steps:
Connect your device to the computer. If it is synced with another iTunes library, the following dialog may appear:
Click the Transfer Purchases button.
Have a nice day,
Mario

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when i log into itunes from my itouch i can't but any songs. it works and i can view songs, but the button with the price where you click to but doesn't show up. I even have part of a gift card left on my itunes. This started when i recently downloaded a bunch of cds to my itouch.

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In the absence of that option, you will need to restore the content of your library from its original sources:
Depending on your location, you may be able to re-download any iTunes Store purchases that are still available on the Store
Likewise, most digital purchases from Amazon (including auto-rip copies of purchased CDs) should be available from the Amazon Cloud and via the Amazon Music application - the same may be true of other commercial sources for digital downloads
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My computer crashed so I tried to sync all my stuff to another computer and lost 300 songs when I synced my iPod to the other computer how do I get them back I don't have them saved in iCloud and I can't get them back from the other computer

Is there anyway to get these songs back also I had music that I had downloaded from emusic and installed some from CDs.

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