Transfering music and files from a pc to my mac

i have music files as well as other files (music the most important) and want to transfer it to my mac.
the pc is networked w/ my mac and i can play the files through a shared file...but i want to save the files on to my mac
any suggestions
any help much appreciated

These instructions are from Mac Help accessible from the Help menu of the Finder.
To transfer music from your Windows computer:
1. On the Windows computer, create a folder to hold your music.
2. Choose Start > My Documents to open the My Documents folder.
3. Select the My Music folder, and choose Edit > Copy.
4. Select the new folder you created in step 1, and choose Edit > Paste.
(Repeat steps 3 and 4 for any other folders that contain music you want to transfer.)
5. Copy the folder containing the music you want to transfer to your Macintosh computer.
6. To copy the folder, either connect the Windows computer and your Macintosh computer over a network, or copy the folder to an intermediary location such as an external hard disk or remote server. If your Windows computer supports it, you can also burn the folder to a CD or DVD disc.
7. On your Macintosh, open iTunes by clicking the iTunes icon in the Dock.
8. Open iTunes
9. Drag the folder that contains your music to the iTunes window. iTunes copies your songs to you iTunes library.
When iTunes has finished copying all the music files you can delete the folder and all the music files because they have now been duplicated into the iTunes Library.

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