Ipod/Itunes Help Needed

• wotown44

  Here's the situation; We have a laptop that we've been using for a year, with plenty of newer music on Itunes. I just found an old Ipod from a few years ago with a bunch of old music I'd like to throw in the current library. Only issue is, I'm not sure of the easiest/best way to do that without wiping out the current library. Any advice/help would be appreciated!
  
  *Also, alot of the music on the old Ipod was from discs and not bought through Itunes, so I can't just recover them through Apple, as one of my other friends had suggested.
• Scarlet_Buckeye

  

  I know is isn't much help, but I DO know there's a program that lets you connect your iPod to a computer, access it like a drive, so you can copy the files and move them to your desired location. When you do this, just make sure on your iTunes that "automatic update" (or whatever it's called) is unchecked so that your iPod files aren't overwritten.
• Pick6

  

  I dont know of much to help you, maybe scarlet is on to something.
  
  I had the same issue two days ago. Luckily I found all of my old music on a flash drive
• wotown44

  Nice, you got lucky there Pick6. I keep telling myself to buy an external hard drive to back all this stuff up with so I don't have this issue. But yes thanks for the suggestions. Suppose it's time to hop on Google to find this program.
• dlazz

  Winamp can do it. Winamp will see the iPod and then you can select all of the songs and drag them out of it into a folder of your choosing, then import that folder into iTunes.
• gut

  ^^^I think that will do it.
  
  On the off chance WinAmp wants to charge you (sometimes such a thing is a premium feature), I'm sure other PC music programs can probably do it as well - MediaMonkey, even Windows Media Player