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Hello,everyone!I am very new to posting so please bear with me.
I had a notebook pc with all of our itunes music downloaded to it. No I did not back it up. My hard drive fried yesterday. How can I upload the music from my son's ipod and my ipad to our main computer? Alos is there any way we can get our downloaded music from itunes?
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A practical, safe recovery plan for music when the original iTunes library is gone.

Before you plug anything in, stop iTunes/Music from auto-syncing so a library on the computer can’t overwrite the device. This is the single most important step: change Devices preferences or disable “Automatically sync when this [device] is connected” before you connect. (help.apple.com)

If the songs were bought from the iTunes Store, the fastest route is to authorize the new computer with the same Apple ID and use iTunes’ “Transfer Purchases” (or re‑download from the Purchased section in the Music app on modern macOS). Authorize first, then connect the device and transfer purchases or download from your account — purchases tied to a different Apple ID require that account to re-download. (support.apple.com)

If the music on the iPod/iPad is not an iTunes purchase (CD rips, MP3s added outside iTunes, or content only on the device), use a reputable extractor (examples: iMazing, iExplorer, AnyTrans, Sharepod) to export files and playlists to a folder or directly back into iTunes/Music. Note: Apple Music subscription downloads and some iCloud Music Library items are DRM/cloud-managed and cannot be exported; extractor tools document these limits. Trial versions often limit the number of tracks you can copy, so check that before relying on one tool. (support.imazing.com)

Quick checklist to follow:

  1. Prevent automatic sync, then make a full backup of the device.
  2. Try Transfer Purchases / Purchased redownload for iTunes buys.
  3. If that doesn’t restore everything, export remaining tracks with a third‑party tool and import into iTunes/Music.
  4. After rebuilding the library, authorize the computer and set up a regular backup plan (external disk or cloud) so this does not happen again. For details on redownloading purchases and hidden items, see Apple’s guidance. (support.apple.com)

Notes: was right to flag the sync risk; ’s point about authorizing a main computer is useful — just prefer official Apple steps or well‑known extraction apps rather than risky jailbroken utilities.

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Be very careful and DO NOT sync your computer to the iPod until you find a way to transfer your music or it WILL wipe your iPod. Do yourself a favor and authorize more than one computer so you can always have a backup. Things happen and you don't want all your great tunes to go away...far far away!

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the i phone software allows you to transfer data from pc to iphone and from i phone to pc

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If you have all you music on your idevice, just authorize your main computer in your iTunes name and sync the music from your device to iTunes. If you want to sync music from your device to ANY iTunes account buy pwntunes from cydia. Don't bother looking for a cracked version, there isn't one, it cost the price of buying one album but let's you get any music form any iTunes account..

hope this helps u..
thanks.......

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