[reno911]

^^^ rawfuls that only works if you actually bought the music off iTunes.

You can change the settings on the iPod without actually reformatting it. Once change to a storage device you can download the music from it. I have done this once before with a iPod Mini that had songs on it that I only had on the iPod. Years later I wanted those songs on my new iPod and had to transfer. Now everything is on my Mac as well as a backup drive, but I know this works.