My old computer died, I want to sync my ipod with a new computer but I am worried I will lose all the songs on my ipod.

New compoter has no music on it, my ipod has all my songs, if I sync the two will the computer erase all my ipod tunes and leave me with no tunes?

See this older post from another forum member Zevoneer covering the different methods available for copying content from your iPod back to your PC.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2452022?start=0&tstart=0
B-rock

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