My macbook crashed, and i want to sync my phone with my new macbook

My Macbook crashed, and with it I lost my entire music library; at least the part that wasn't synced to my iPhone 4S. I purchased a new macbook and would love to transfer the songs FROM my iphone TO my macbook, but I keep getting this message - which I am fearful will erase the precious few songs I did save on the iPhone:
Are you sure you want to remove existing music, movies, TV shows, books, and tones from this iPhone and sync with this iTunes library?
Can somebody please advise? Thank you.

Hi evanlovett,
Welcome to the Apple Support Communities! I understand that you no longer have the computer that had your iTunes Library stored on it and you want to move what music you still have on your iPhone to your new computer. If the music was purchased from iTunes you can get this music back to your iTunes Library two different ways. You can either transfer purchases from the iPhone to the iTunes Library, or you can just download the music again from the Purchased section of iTunes. I will post the information on both ways to recover your purchased music below. If the music on your iPhone came from a CD or another source (not purchased from iTunes) there would be no way to transfer it to your iTunes Library.
iTunes Store: Transferring purchases from your iOS device or iPod to a computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1848
Download past purchases
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519
I hope this helps,
-Joe

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Hi there,
You can re-download purchased content from the iTunes store directly to your iTunes library or your iOS devices. Take a look at the article below for more information.
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519
-Griff W.

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The EASY way is to restore the backup that you must have kept of the computer that crashed to your new laptop. In lieu of that there's a much more complicated process that preserves most, but not all content: Syncing to a "New" Computer or replacing a "crashed" Hard Drive

I just fomatted my PC and I want to sync my Ipod with my new Itunes without losing everything.

the title says everything

This was posted in the "Using iPad" discussion site but it applies to an iPod Touch as well.
The following was copied from this thread. This is essentially what you want to accomplish.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/11527071#11527071
1) Without connecting your iPad to your laptop, start iTunes. Click on Edit. Click on Preferences. Click on Devices. Check the box next to "Prevent your iPod etc. from automatically syncing." Click OK.
2) Now connect your iPad to your laptop and start iTunes.
3) When iTunes starts, right click on your iPad under Devices in the left column. Select Transfer purchases etc.
4) After it finishes transferring all your apps to your new laptop, right click on your iPad and select Backup your iPad.
5) After it finishes backing up your iPad, right click on your iPad and select Restore etc.
6) After it finishes restoring, left click on your iPad , then click on the Apps tab on top, and check the box next to Sync Apps, then click on Apply below.
If everything on your iPad looks good after the sync, go back and click on Edit / Preferences / Devices and UN-check the box next to Prevent your iPod etc. The only other thing you may want to check is if your contacts, bookmarks, etc. are syncing correctly now. If not, go to the Info tab after connecting and make sure you indicate which features you want to sync with what sources.
Read this thread and the support links as well. There are apps that you can purchase that will allow you to transfer photos from the iPad to your PC. Look at Photo Transfer App in the App store and you can search for others as well.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/13016026#13016026
This support site will help you with transferring iTunes music to your new computer.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527

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Any help is appreciated!!
Thanks

Just an FYI, your purchases from iTunes are associated to your Apple ID. So Apps, Music, Videos, etc, that were purchased on the App Store/iTunes are freely available to him when using his Apple ID even after restoring (ie: by going to the Purchased tab in iTunes, etc). You can sync his contacts and photos to iCloud (or other free services).

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Only iTunes content and any photos transferred from the computer that was used for syncing the iPhone.
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Ok, I had a glitch, forced to restart, and lost my train of thought.
Reinstalling iTunes should fix the major issue that might have gone wrong, perhaps your explaination points will disappear and everything will be peachy again.
But if they don't, you can open the XML file in iTunes Folder using a Text edit program to see what the common pathname is to the iTunes Music folder or where your content is located.
If you moved the itunes folder, it needs to go back.
I can't download iTunes to my Vista virtual machine to test it out right now because iTunes is down, so I can't verify the pathname, perhaps your issue and the iTunes being down are related somehow?
You don't want to import all your music again, but it's a option, but you lose all your playlists, that's what I'm trying to recover.
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Yes, windows to Mac too.
iTunes: How to move [or copy] your music [library] to a new computer [or another drive] - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527
Quick answer if you use iTunes' default preferences settings: Copy the entire iTunes folder (and in doing so all its subfolders and files) intact to the other drive. Open iTunes and immediately hold down the Option (alt) key (shift on Windows), then guide it to the new location of the library.
Windows users see tip at: https://discussions.apple.com/message/18879381

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Then see this tip: https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3141

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I want to sync my Ipod with my new computer.

My last computer was stolen in the fall, and I've managed to get a new computer.
I know that connecting my ipod will erase all of my music already on their, but I also have new music on my computer that I want to sync onto my ipod without losing anything.
I've transferred purchases, but not all of the music on my ipod was transferred (only1/10 was transferred.)
I do not know how to put the 4 new albums I've bought into my ipod, and I'm terrified of losing the music already in there.
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Hey there, this may have been answered since May 2012 but I will give you my solution that always works for me..... I have 2 ipods synced with one computer. I just received another one from my sister with cool music on it. I wanted to add that music to my itunes library, but of course if I sync it with my computer all the music will be lost unlesssssss.........................
-- Plug in new ipod to your computer (make sure your iTunes is set to "not" automatically sync when ipod is plugged in)
-- minimize itunes window if it opens
-- on your desk top, make a new folder and call it whatever you want.... let's say, "new ipod"
-- go to start.... my computer... double click on the ipod icon
--See ipod control folder?? If it is faint, right click on it... go down to properties... in attributes, UNcheck the hidden box... apply.. ok
--go back and double click ipod control folder...
--double click on Music folder...
--select all the folders... copy them... open that "new ipod" folder on the desktop and paste them in there... perfect
--open itunes... click file... add folder to library... click desktop... find "new ipod" folder... select folder and voila!!!!
--all the songs from the ipod will now be added to your iTunes library, You can make a new playlist of those new songs.
--now when you sync the ipod with this computer, it will replace all the songs on it, but who cares, you have those songs in your library!! This does work perfectly without buying any program to do it for you!!
Sorry for being long winded, but it works... try it.. I have done this several times!

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