Restore songs from phone to library

I have an Iphone 4S and have recently had to do a clean install on the computer that held my itunes
After the install I was able to recapture about 1/3 of the songs that I had in the library.
My phone has 755 songs as compared to the librarys current total of less than 400
Is there a way to restore the songs from my phone ot the library

You needed to have a backup of your iTunes library. The sync process for the music is from the iTunes library to the iOS device. However, it seems you did not have a good backup, so see this user supplied tip. Syncing to a "New" Computer or replacing a "crashed" Hard Drive

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