I need to get my music from my Ipod, to my computer/Itunes. Please Help!

Hi! Yesterday, I restored my computer to its factory settings. I thought I had backed all of my music up onto a jumpdrive, but when I plugged it in, it only had about half of my songs. So I'm missing over 500. I've looked at plenty of things that tell me to change my settings in my computer to "show hidden files and folders" But it doesn't show any folders in the first place. All it says is Morgan's Ipod under Portable Devices. When I open it, it says "internal storage" Thats all. It does nothing when I change the settings. Please help, I get most of my music from CD's that I borrow from the library, so it work be extremely difficult to get them all over again.

1) make sure iTunes on the new install is authorized for your iTunes store account(s)
2) connect your device and right-click or control-click it in the iTunes Source list, then choose transfer purchases from the shortcut menu that appears.
3) sync the device
iTunes will wipe the iPod but, since you transferred your purchases in the previous step, your content will be in your library and you can re-populate the iPod with it.
above works for items purchased on the iTunes store. for everything else, check out this post by Zevoneer.

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