My phone won't sync to itunes. How can I make it sync?

I haven't updated my phone in almost a year I beleive, becuase the last time I did it my phone got wiped out. My phone has always synced to my itunes on my computer without me updating it but now it won't. it won't even connect to the computer so I can try to update it. So I was wondering if I need to go to an apple store and have them update it for me (if they can even do that) or if theres something I can do. My biggest concern is that I don't want to lose all of my music I have bought that hasn't been transfered to my itunes on my computer.

Plugging the device into any other computer to update it will wipe all the media from the device.  It does not matter if Apple does this or a user.
Failing to sync the device for over a year because you cannot or will not resolve the issue that is occurring is not the smartest thing to do.
Media purchased via iTunes cannot be lost, simply choose "Check for Available Downloads" from iTunes.
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