I DESPERATLY NEED HELP TRANSFERING SONGS FROM IPOD TO ITUNES LIBRARY

hi my computer crashed downstairs and i need help moving all my songs from my ipod to my itunes library, on the other computer...will someone please help me?

Hello Markatkis,
Make sure your not connecting it to more than one PC. A new iPOd is set to "Auto Update" by default. With this setting all you do is plug the iPOd into the PC and iTUnes automaticly opens, loads all the songs it has listed in iTunes to the iPod, and after its done, ejects the iPOd.
If you connect it to another PC tho with iTUnes on it you usually get a promtp that in short says "iPOd library linked to another PC, do you want to link to this one" if you click yes, it wipes the iPOd clean and loads only whats on that PC.
Since your new to all of this a great place for you may be the "iPod 101" site. It will show you all the bacis ropes of using your iPOd, using iTUnes, and using them both together. http://www.apple.com/support/ipod101/

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Ok so I'm having a bit of trouble. I have had my iPod for a while. Longer than my laptop. So I haven't been able to put songs from my nano to my library.
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my original computer was destroyed
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but itunes will only download itune-purchased songs into the harddrive
is there a way i can manually download all the songs from my ipod to itunes library in the computer?
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cranky-d wrote:
i had music that was only on my harddrive
harddrive's destroyed, its only on my ipod now
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You could try , at your risk, purchasing a third party program that may extract info ( not supported by Apple).

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Hey, so yeah my comp fried itself the other day [hard disk corrupt files issues] and i managed to get it fixed, with a new copy of windows installed. problem is i didnt wipe the hard disk [because many files are ones id rather not lose] and so the other account which was on 'dont share my files' [windows is ******** that way] is completely unaccessable. This means i lose access to documents, settings, and everything on the desktop / user-related files. They're still on my computer, but completely unaccessable , and windows pretends they arent there, because im a 'different user' now. Itunes was part of that. along with my songs folder. So i reinstall itunes, and the ipod registers, though saying it is registered to another itunes library, and i can change it to this one [if i want to wipe all my songs for the nothing that the current library has in it].
So clearly what i need to do is import songs from the ipod to the itunes library that i have now. This option doesnt seem to exist, ive been looking for it for some time. Any ideas?

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Once you are safely connected there are a few things you can do to restore your iTunes from the iPod.
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I want to move songs from ipod to itunes library

A while ago, early this year i think, my hard drive died and i had to get a new one and re-install everything. I had most of my music backed up on an external but not everything. I re-installed Itunes, but didn't bother to put the music i had backed up back in the library, because it was already on my ipod anyway. so since then, whenever i want to put more stuff on my ipod, i import it into itunes and "manually manage", like click and drag it to my ipod.
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Now, problem is, there are some songs on my ipod that are not in the library OR the backup (and i don't have the original cd's). I want them in my library so i can burn a CD for someone. and i can't figure out how to get these songs into itunes. when i go to "sync" it says this will erase the contents of my ipod and replace it with what is in the library(which is practically nothing). this is the opposite of what i would like to happen. so ideally i would like the contents of my ipod to = the contents of my library; or at least, move those few songs that currently exist only on my ipod into the library. i feel like this should be so easy to do, what am i doing wrong? help me? sorry this was long.

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