Getting music off of your IPod after your system has to be reinstalled
For the life of me, I don't know why Apple is considered the friendliest of the user experiences when they leave you dangling in the wind in the inevitable case of having lost your system and all of your music is tantalizingly still within your grasp on your Ipod. That you have to appeal to outside software to recover all of that material which you paid them for in the age of illicit free downloading just screams "go elsewhere", which makes no sense for Apple. Apparently they'd rather capitalize on the misfortune of the less-savvy having to replace their music collection which still exists but is kept behind Apple's own locked door on the device you paid them for.
In any case, if this happens to you, here's a link on how to get your music back on Windows.