Cross platform transfer

My ipod contains music from my Mac now I wish to move those tunes to my Windows PC but the PC reports that the ipod is formatted for a Mac and I have to reformat my ipod. This would mean I would loose my songs. What can I do?
G5 DP 2.0   Mac OS X (10.4.6)   G4 PB15 Nikon D2X

Hi Phillipine Swing!
The easiest way would be to connect the two on your LAN and just move them that way, leaving the iPod out of the mix. As it is formatted for OS X, XP will not see it. When I was a mixed OS house, I had mine formatted for Windows so both could use it
If you can't do the network trick, I would suggest burning the files to a data CD or DVD with iTunes. then just put the disk in the PC and import (and copy) away, again with iTunes.
Other methods of transferring without a network or a CD burner would be external drive (copy the music over then again onto the PC), or a removable USB drive (same thing).
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