Retrieving songs from ipod shuffle... Help!

I have an ipod shuffle that was linked to my home computer's itunes. I loaded it with tunes (some that I bought from itunes). My computer crashed and I had to re-initialize the whole hard drive. (I did not have the songs backed up. Stupid, I know!) Now when I plug my shuffle in, I get the message about it being linked to another itunes library. That library doesn't exist anymore. It says if I relink it to the current itunes (which I want to do) it will erase the songs from my ipod and replace them with songs from the current library. I don't want to erase them because the ipod is the only place that they exist. When I say no it ejects the ipod icon from my desktop. How can I get the songs from my ipod to my new itunes or at least add new songs to the ipod without losing what's already on there?

It always seemed like iPodRip should work, and we played with it a lot, but always seemed to keep rubbing up against the same problem — it only works if the iPod stays mounted and, unless the Shuffle is in Disk mode, it always unmounts as soon give the standard "No" answser to iTunes.
We couldn't figure out a way to get iPodRip to work while iTunes was still in the loop at all, and there was no way to get her Shuffle into Disk mode without .... well, going into iTunes and therefore dumping out all of her songs, which was what we were trying to avoid in the first place.
Working with my own iPS, which I always keep in Disk mode, was just fine and it does seem to be a slick little app. I still have it on my own system but, of course, I haven't needed it for anything else. My friend has been off looking more into this on her own, and I have no idea what her progress in the past week or so has been.
Based on that, assuming we didn't just miss something really obvious, it seemed that it's only partially good on Shuffles. I've never heard of the other one but will take a look and see if I can get that to work any better. In the meantime, if there is some little trick to getting iPodRip to work with a normal (not in Disk mode) iPS I'd be interested in learning about that, too.

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