I just posted this same thing and it got removed for some reason. This is a legitimate question. I recently put iTunes on a new laptop and want to manage the music on my iPod that I had a friend load up with songs (FROM CDS THAT I OWN) a year or so ago. I've just never had iTunes to manage or change my music and would like to be able to download new songs and add to it without losing all the current songs and take all the time to reload them all.
No backup unfortunately. I bought the ipod and knew nothing about how to use it and had a friend load it up with songs from all my cds a couple years ago. Half the cds are now gone or missing or buried somewhere, shoot, I think he probably still has some of them. Now I just downloaded itunes to a new computer and want to be able to put all those songs on it then add/manage from there.