Converting WMA library to MP3 when transfer to the iPOD

After long time I decided to transfer my 2000CD's to the iTunes on WMA format to loos not quality.
The transfer job is still not finish, but I have 1 Tera with music. Now I want to transfer all, or almost all this music to my iPod Classic 160G. Obviously I have to convert to MP3.
But I don't see how to do that without coping on the same iTunes library a duplicate of my songs on MP3. Do somebody knows how transfer my WMA iTunes music to the iPod converting on the way to MP3, and without making a MP3 duplicate on my HD?
Thank you

Do somebody knows how transfer my WMA iTunes music
When you added the wma files to iTunes, iTunes has already converted them to whatever you have selected in iTunes prefs-> Advanced - Importing.
They are not in iTunes as a wma file.
You can set iTunes prefs-> Advanced - Importing to MP3.
The delete the files you have added from WMA.
Re-add the same WMA files and iTunes will convert them to MP3 as it adds them to iTunes.

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