Trying to move songs from iPod to Mac

I accidentally deleted some songs from iTunes, without even thinking, I emptied the trash can. I thought they were duplicates, but they weren't! The only other place I have these songs backed up are on my iPod Touch. I had it in "Manual" mode, and am trying to put move these songs to my iMac, but it's not working. These are songs I ripped from a CD years ago, and unfortunately can't find the CD now to put them back on the iMac.
Is there any way to get these transferred from my iPod Touch to my iMac?

Music you bought from the iTunes store can be transferred from the iPod to computer via iTunes. Look under the File menu. For the rest, you'll need to use a third party program. I used to recommend Senuti as a free solution (and the one that I use) but it is now shareware so while I know that a program called 'Ipod to Mac 12' says it does the job and is free, I can't recommend it because I haven't used it yet.

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