Transferring music from iphone to new computer? - 1

When I bought my iphone I didn't have a computer to use to transfer all my music from my external hard drive, so I used my friend's computer. I don't have access to that computer anymore.

I just recently bought a new computer and I want to put everything from my iphone (including a lot of music I purchased from the app store) to my new computer. I still have access to the external hard drive and as a last resort I guess I can sort through all the data again to put it on my new computer (which took literally half a day last time I did it), but I find it hard to believe that there's no way to back up your iphone to a computer that isn't synched with the iphone yet. Whenever I try to copy the music to my computer manually, every time I open the iphone's data, the only thing that shows up is pictures.

I tried searching for ways to do this but every forum just says to copy the data from one computer's iTunes to the new computer's iTunes. All I have access to is the iTunes on my phone.Am I missing something here or did Apple just completely skip over something so fundamental?

Any help at all is much appreciated.

Yes there are ways to do this without anything on your old computer. This should help: http://osxdaily.com/2012/06/04/transfer-music-from-iphone-ipod-or-ipad-to-computer/

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