As far as I can remember you open the Ipod as you would a usb device,*check the music folder and copy and paste them over to your laptop music folder. The files are annoyingly named as random four letter sequences but once you upload them to Itunes I think they are read correctly and restored with proper song/artist names
There could be an application that makes that a lot easier though but thats the way i did when my last laptop crashed i believe
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