MUSIC DELETED - URGENT!

Help! I was trying to update my iBook with Mac OS 10.4, but needed more room on my HD. I noticed that there were duplicate files of all my downloaded music in a music file. It seemed to be taking up too much space, so I went to delete them and accidentally DELETED ALL OF MY iTUNES FILES.
I DO have all of the music still present on my 20GB iPod. How can I get my music from my iPod back onto my iTunes????
HELP!

Then... once all your music is safely back on your computer, you want to BACKUP immediately - if you are a.Mac Member, use 'Backup' and burn your music to CD's or DVD's or an External Hard Drive... ESPECIALLY your Purchased Music, as once gone, Apple will NOT allow you to re-download it, even though they have receipts in their system that you purchased that music from them.
BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP... I run Backup at LEAST once a week for my music, photos, documents, etc. First time you back up is slow, but once done, the Backup software does Incremental Backups (only the things that have changed get backed up) so it's very fast on second and subsequent Backups...

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I'm sorry, I tried but it didn't work well enough.
I have two screens and when I take screenshots, the picture of the iTunes screen is too little to make sense.
I'll try to explain what I'm doing now.
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Is there no other way to empty my iPhone from all the music and afterwards sync it again, without losing all the other stuff?
I'm using iPods from the beginning, having a big music library of 40.000 songs.
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- Transfer iTuns purchases:
iTunes Store: Transferring purchases from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod to a computer
- Transfer other music by using a third-party program lke one of those discussed here:
Copy music from Ipod to new computer...: Apple Support Communities
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When the process is completed, the new Playlist is installed on my iPod, and all of the songs that were previously there are flipping GONE.
I have been wrestling with this problem for a long time, and have as yet to solve it. I don't want to wipe out my existing songs/playlists on my device. I want them to STAY RIGHT THERE. All I want to do is ADD SOMETHING NEW to them. I know this can be done, but cannot for the life of me figure out how to do it.
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"Is the idea that you set up a playlist (I will call it Synch Playlist) into which you will be putting only new music not previously installed on your device and you will then synch to your device only what is in the synch playlist and this will not delete any of the previously existing music on your device?"
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Here's an example that may help. I have a playlist called (somewhat unimaginatively) "8Gb iPod" which I use to control the content of my 8Gb nano. I remove any previous content from this playlist and add five albums to it as follows:
I sync the iPod and it will contain these five albums (any previous content having been removed). Now suppose I want to add a couple more albums to the iPod. I add these to the playlist so that it looks like this:
and sync the iPod again. All seven albums will now on the iPod - the initial five will be untouched because they are in the playlist and were already on the iPod; just the two new ones will be added to it.
Now I decide that I want to remove two of the original albums from the iPod. I remove these from the playlist so that it is like this:
When I next sync the iPod it will delete the Sinatra and U2 albums, leaving the other five untouched.
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First sync
remove any music that is on the iPod that is not contained in the "8Gb iPod" playlist
add the songs that comprise the "Reflektor", "Sinatra at the Sands", "Crime of the Century", "Songs of Innocence" and "Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone" albums to the iPod
Second sync:
leave the songs that comprise the "Reflektor", "Sinatra at the Sands", "Crime of the Century", "Songs of Innocence" and "Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone" albums on the iPod (as they are still in the "8Gb iPod" playlist)
add the songs that comprise the "Independant Intavenshan: The Island Anthology" and "The Endless River" albums to the iPod
Third sync:
leave the songs that comprise the "Reflektor", "Independant Intavenshan: The Island Anthology", "The Endless River", "Crime of the Century" and "Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone" albums on the iPod (as they are still in the "8Gb iPod" playlist)
delete the songs that comprise the "Sinatra at the Sands" and "Songs of Innocence" albums from the iPod (as they are not in the "8Gb iPod" playlist)
Is this clearer?

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