IPod music (synced from a PC) -- mac

I have a friend that wants to move a bunch of songs from his iPod, which has been synced and configured for his PC, to my mac. There are plenty of threads/sites that show you how to move it to a NEW mac... But I want to preserve all of the music that's already on the Mac. I just want to add everything that's on the iPod to the Mac. How can I do this?

There was a glitch I ran across in iTunes.  I had always had Manually manage music and videos checked and sometime betweein iOS 5.0, 5.1 and 5.1.1 there was an issue that caused the check to go a way and I could no longer manage my musically manually.  I rechecked the Manage Manually check box and got the message that it would erase all my music and videos.  I hate having the system manage this for me so I went through the painful process of re-adding all my music and playlists to my phone to get this feature back.  Since I did this I haven't had any problems but it was a real pain when I had to do it.
There may be another answer to this but that was what I had to do to get Manual Music Management back on my phone.

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