Tranfer from iPod to computer

I recently received a new laptop, and wanted to use it for my Pod as opposed to my slow, old desktop.
I manually transferred the songs (copy + pasted from iPod to music folder on the C drive), but now I can't play them.
Whenever I attempt to play a song, it just gives me the error message: "The song could not be used because the file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?"
My friend experienced a similar problem a few months ago, but I don't know how he solved it.
Anyone care to help out?
Message was edited by: James Surber

There are a few different ways you can do this, including the first method laid out in this post.
The most straighforward method in copying your iPod's songs to your computer, however, might be to download a third-party program that can do this for you.
For example, if you are on a Windows computer, you can use YamiPod (I find it a fairly easy program to figure out and use with both of my iPods).
As a note, you will have to have iTunes closed when you run this program, though.
I hope that helps!
-Kylene

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