iPod question ?

[Rico]

I've used Senuti — Recover music from your iPod, iPhone or iPad to your Mac before to copy songs from iPod into iTunes. Worked really well. But obviously it's not an official Apple product.

[Diamond Blue]

I used IRip software for about £12
Worked fine and recovered my library back from the I Phone........Phew!

Moral of the story, BACK UP YOUR TUNES

[InsBro]

Moral of the story, BACK UP YOUR TUNES

+1

[GOBSH_TE]

As in, to an external hard disc?

[Diamond Blue]

As in, to an external hard disc?

Yup.
Or you can do it online through Cloud service now I believe.
Depends what storage you require. My library isn't huge, about 20GB so it'll go on a couple of USB Drives but I keep it on an older PC's HDD just in case. All prompted by my laptop having a hissy fit last year and deleting the entire library. (Hence my experience of IRip )
I Tunes is funny about how many permitted computers it will allow on each account. I think its 5 maximum.
But restoring back to the host computer from the device requires a suitable software download. I Tunes doesn't allow it to sync that way round.