Music downloaded on my iPod can't be read in iTunes anymore

Hello,
I've a certain number of songs on my iPod (30Gb Photo) that were downloaded from iTunes - I still have the Music Store Receipts -, that can't be played now on iTunes ... by the side of the song in iTunes there is an exclamation point.
Is there a way to synchronize, or whatever else to get those songs from the iPod back in iTunes ?
Thank you very much.

The exclamation point means iTunes can't find those songs on your hard drive. Did you move the iTunes folder or the location of songs? Unless you have "Copy Files to iTunes Music Folder when adding to library" in the Advanced preference panel of iTunes checked, you music will stay wherever it originally was.
So for example, if a song was on your desktop and you put it in your iTunes library, the song stays on the desktop. If you then delete or move the song from the desktop, iTunes won't know where it is, and then show the exclamation icon.
Hope this helps.

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