New Laptop, Itunes content only a fraction of whats on my ipod.

Do NOT sync your iPod - you will lose your music on there.

See one of the following links to get the music files off of your ipod:

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-10141

https://www.wikihow.com/Recover-Music-Stored-on-Your-iPod-(Windows)

Also, because you lost your itunes library, you also lost your ratings and playcounts. Make sure you take a backup of your laptop every so often. Whether you use a cloud backup solution like Backblaze or Carbonite, or even manually copy your iTunes library to a thumb drive or SD card every so often. There's also cloud drives like Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive and Google Drive you can copy data to.

You are going to copy hidden folders from the device into the active library's Automatically Add to iTunes folder. This is typically located at C:\Users\<User>\Music\iTunes\iTunes Media\Automatically Add to iTunes. If you know how to move your library to a different path then you probably know how to reach this folder too.

It is important to close iTunes before copying the files into the folder as they need to be unhidden before iTunes is allowed to process them. iTunes discards hidden files rather than adding them to the library.

tt2

Ratings, play counts, and playlists can potentially be recovered using some scripts mentioned in the first link posted above.

tt2

tt2 - have you tried using that syncstats script? Will it pull playcounts and/or ratings from an iphone and update the itunes library accordingly?

I haven't tested it lately, but it worked when I wrote it and I don't think anything in iTunes has changed to break it.

tt2

You're welcome. 🙂

tt2