Old music didn't load only music I purchased!! how do I get my old albums back?

I loaded all my old albums on my devices and when I did the update I no longer have my old music only music I purchased from itunes.. please let me know how to get my old music back, I do have it on a old ipod so I still have access to it.. how to transfer from one device to the other or to my mac computer.. Please help!!

As I said all music should reside in iTunes. iCloud only recently came out, before that you couldn't reload music. It's always important to maintain a local backup.
As the music in question was not purchased you can't load it from the iPod into iTunes if you hadn't been syncing as it will attempt to mirror the iTunes library and erase the iPod. You need 3rd party software to get unpurchased music onto the computer from an iPod

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atoo2 wrote:
I just did the IOS8 update on my Ipad retina which had 300 photos it asked me to do an iCloud back up which i did but it deleted all my previous photos and now i only have recent photos how do i get back all my old photos? It said befor that my icloud was out of storage but i didnt know it didnt have my old photos, they arnt back up on itunes either is there any way I can get them back?
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