Transferring music from 3gs to new itouch

I have a question. I just recently purchased a new 5th gen itouch 64 gb. Before that, I was using my old iphone 3GS as my primary ipod. I was wondering, is there any way besides the "external drive copy method" that I could transfer my songs from my old 3GS to my new itouch? I had the following idea but Im not sure if it would work or not.
The idea was if I could just completely wipe my old 3GS (AFTER I back it up of course), plug in my new itouch to my itunes and transfer everything that was once on my 3GS to my new itouch? I remember having to do this when I had to get my iphone 5 replaced because of a defective power button. All I had to do was go home, plug in my new iphone 5 and voila! Everything was transferred! However, Im not sure if that will work or not due to the devices in question being an iphone and an itouch and not 2 iphones like it was last time.
If anyone could please help me figure out a way to transfer everything over from the old device to my new itouch, it would be greatly appreciated!

The backup that iTunes makes does NOT included synced media like apps and music,
First do this with the iPhone
Recovering your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device: Apple Support Communities
Step 4 makes a backup of the iPhone
Then Connect the iPod to the computer and restore from the phone backup

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