I recently had to do a complete system restore how do i transfer my itunes library from my iphone back onto my computer

I recently had to do a complete system restore on my computer. How do i transfer the itunes content from my iphone back onto my computer?

You don't.
The music sync is one way - computer to iphone. The only exception is itunes purchases.
The iphone is not a backup device.
It has always been very basic to always maintain a  backup copy of your computer. Certainly you did not restore your system without making sure that your backup copy was up to date.
Use your backup copy to put everything back.
If for some reason you have failed to maintain a backup ( not good) then you can transfer itunes purchases from the iphone.  Without syncing:  File>Transfer Purchases

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    Justine8888 wrote:
    New to all this upload stuff so pls excuse me !  So my computer had to be refreshed, I had ripped my CD's to iTunes and also purchased some, the purchased ones are still on iTunes but all of the ones that I had ripped have gone.
    Restore them from the backup of yoru computer...
      I have them on my iphone 5, is there a way to put all of the music from the iphone back on to itunes?
    See this -> Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device
    then regularly backup your computer.

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    iTunes: Restoring iOS software
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    iOS: How to back up
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