Old computer crashes no backups to ipod songs except what is on my ipod 30 gb how do i recoup my library on new windows 7 computer?

My 8 year old XP coumputer crashed . my Ipodmusic library is lost. my 30 gb ipod has all the music and i haave no other back up. how do I recover the music to my new windows 7 computer?

See this older post from another forum member Zevoneer covering the different ways to copy content from your iPod back to your PC. Next time, be sure to maintain a backup of either your iTunes library or your entire system.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2452022?start=0&tstart=0
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=797432&#797432
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