Converting files to suit itunes

Hey there, I hope someone out there can help me, I used to have a sony music player and have quite a collection of atrac music files, now i have seen the light and have just aquired an ipod.....i guess you know where this is going now....can anyone tell me a way of converting the files or a way to import them to itunes, any help would be greatly appriciated
Cheers
  Windows XP  

i understand that this may depend on the particular version of SonicStage that you've got installed. there's a bit more information about this in the following Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SonicStage
(if your version of SonicStage allows you to convert the files to WAV, then you can add the WAVs to your iTunes library.)

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