Old computer to new...

If I back up my ipod music and reformat my ipod from pc to mac, can I import my playlist or do I have to start all over? What about the music purchased from itunes? I am sure I can find all this in some manual, I just have not gotten around to it yet. Maybe I'll just keep my ipod seperate from my mac.
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"I know have to countinuly manualy add songs to my ipod wich is okay"
You can return your iPod to automatic if your copy the songs and playlists back from the iPod to the new computer. There are a number of third party utilities that you can use to retrieve the music files and playlists from your iPod, this is just a selection. Have a look at the web pages and documentation for these, they are generally quite straightforward. I use Senuti but check the others out and choose whichever you are happy with. By the way, I am assuming you are using a Mac since you are posting in the "Connecting you iPod to a Mac" forum though your profile is blank.
Senuti Mac Only
iPodRip Mac Only
PodWorks Mac Only
iPod.iTunes Mac Only
iPod Access Mac and Windows Versions
YamiPod Mac and Windows Versions
PodUtil Mac and Windows Versions
iPodCopy Mac and Windows Versions
Whichever of these utilities you choose, keep your iPod in manual mode until you have reloaded your iTunes and you are happy with your playlists etc then it will be safe to return it auto-sync again.
"but there is now no way to add album art work to my songs currenly on my ipod from my old ipod with out erasing them from my my ipod and completly losing them is there"
Not sure how many iPods we are now talking about now but any artwork that is on the songs will go back into iTunes using the method above. To keep an iPod up to date with artwork you have to add it in iTunes and have your iPod syncing automatically. You can add artwork to an iPod in manual but it doesn't show up.

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