Transfering my music from iPhone to a new MacBook

I had a complete failure of my hard drive on a MacBook and lost everything included my music library. Is there a way to transfer my library that is on my iPhone back to my new MacBook.Tried last night without any luck.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Also, any recommendations besides disksavers for help in trying to retrieve data from a failed hard drive. They said it was a complete failure but I am willing to get a second opinion.

The iPhone is not a backup device, and iTunes-managed transfer of music is one-way (computer to phone) with the exception of music purchased on the iPhone itself. You'd need to use something like TouchCopy or PhoneView (Google them). But, you really should have had a backup hard drive and made frequent backups - may I suggest you start that practice now??

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