NANO WON'T SYNC - TRIED EVERYTHING!

Hi, all. I have a Nano that has many songs on it. My computer crashed, and I had to download the new iTunes, so I lost all my songs on my hard drive and have no backup. I know, I know - it was stupid. So now I have all the songs on the ipod and also have about 20 that I purchased that aren't on my ipod but are on the new itunes hard drive. I tried downloading the newest version of itunes and then performing the sync. I made sure my new version was authorized, which is how the purchased songs ended up on there. I tried going through all the steps on the article for the person that transferred their songs to a new computer. Nothing works. It'll sit for an hour saying it is going to sync but nothing swaps from ipod to itunes or vice versa. Any other suggestions? I've been trying for a week and am quite an experienced computer user and still can't figure it out!

Check out the instructions/suggestions here.
Music from iPod to computer (using option 2).
There's also another method. I've successfully tested this across several different Windows PCs.
Open iTunes and select edit/preferences/advanced/general. Put a check mark in the box marked "copy files to iTunes music folder when adding to library" and also "keep iTunes music folder organized", then click 'ok'.
Connect the iPod whilst holding down the shift/ctrl keys to prevent any auto sync, and if you see the dialogue window asking if you want to sync to this itunes library, click 'no'.
Then go to file/add folder, open 'my computer', select your iPod and click 'ok'.
The music files should transfer to your iTunes.
If this doesn't work (and it may not because officially it's not supposed to), there's Yamipod. This is a free program that transfers music and playlists etc from iPod back to the computer. However, it does not transfer playcounts/ratings etc.
The above methods may depend on what version of iTunes you are running.
If none of these methods work, try CopyPod.

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