Is there any way to transfer music from an iPod Touch to my Mac?

I bought an iPod Touch about three years ago now - used to have all my music on it for the bus rides to college etc.
A year and a half later, I bought an iPhone, so I forgot all about the iPod Touch.
I've recently rediscovered it and it has old songs I want to transfer onto my MacBook. Only problem is I don't want to download some unofficial app that's not supported by Apple because I'm concerned about security etc, and I don't want to have to use some program to download the songs again for free.. I'm not paying again for something I've bought before, and the majority of it isn't on iTunes.
I just want to transfer what I have onto a new computer.
Also, I can't use the 'Download purchases' option in iTunes - I've used it before, and it hasn't downloaded half of the music I've actually purchased.. is pretty useless.

Yeah, that's not the problem.
I bought music on my last laptop, which was authorised with this iTunes account.
Bought a MacBook, authorised the account on this computer, and it's not downloading music I previously purchased on the old laptop.

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