Pc crashed, how can I restore music

PC crashed, backup incognito.  How can I restore pictrues & music from Iphone to PC?

If the music was purchased from the iTunes store you can transfer it by connecting the phone to your computer and choosing "transfer purchases" from the File menu. For photos there are programs for your computer that can allow you to view files on the iPhone and transfer them, but the photos are reduced resolution so if you took them with a good camera the quality will be much lower than the originals that you didn't back up.
BTW, there is absolutely no excuse for not backing up photos; there are so many free Internet photo archives (Picasa, Flickr, etc).

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    sign in to itunes store, home screen right side, click purchased hyperlink, find what you need and redownload.

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    Is there a way to transfer my non-purchases from my Ipod Touch back to my Itunes? My computer caught a virus and I had to reformatt the disk and of course like a fool didn't have anything backed up. I have been able to transfer my purchases, but what about non-purchases like my pics and other downloaded music? Will I be able to sync and add new purchases my pod again without losing the exsisting library? Please help!

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  • HT204074 How can I transfer music from my iPad to my iPod. I no longer have a Pc. It died and cannot be restored. It had iTunes with my entire music library on it.

    How can I transfer music from my iPhone to my iPad.?
    I no longer have a PC. Mine died and cannot be restored. It had iTunes with my entire music library on it.

    If you are running an OS of 5.0 or higher, you should be able to use the iCloud to sync both devices together & share music.

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    If you do not have a back up of the crashed hard drive you can download an app to copy from the iPhone to iTunes on the new hard drive.
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  • My hard drive crashed how can i get my old music from my itune account

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    If you have the media on an iDevice then you should be able to get most of your non-iTunes purchases back as well. See this post from forum regular Zevoneer for options.
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  • I have more than 300 CDs I downloaded into my computer which went to my iTunes library and have purchased hundreds of songs through iTunes store and can no longer access these songs. How can I restore my music so I can play it?

    I have more than 300 CDs that I have downloaded to my computer and have purchased hundreds of songs from the iTunes store on my Mac. I cannot play any of this music now. How can I restore my iTunes library? I can see the music files, but they will not play. The message I get is that the file cannot be found. I have stopped purchasing any music from iTunes, and will not do so in the future unless this can be resolved. Why buy music if in the future you can't play it? I have not connected my ipod to my computer for months because of concerns that my music will disappear from there too.

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    In the many years of people complaining about broken links I don't think any way has been developed to mend them automatically.  I saw one attempt to use Spotlight, but it didn't really work.
    None of us work for Apple so it's up to you if you won't buy from them until it is fixed. We will try to help you fix it, because we're nice. 

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