From PC to Mac - iPod question

So i finally made the switch to mac from PC. i had an iPod connected to my PC, but now i need it to sync with my mac. how do i make them compatable now??
thanks in advance
~smile784

first of all, if you already format that iPod for PC,
you cannot plug and sync it with MAC.
All nano and shuffles are PC formatted to begin with (and I assume that's true for the big boys, too). The problem is not the format of your iPod but that all of your songs are on your iPod and none on your Mac. It will give you a dialog box that says something like:
This iPod is synced to another computer. Do you want to sync it to this computer? If you sync it to this computer, everything will be erased? Wanna?
So, if you want to preserve your songs currently on your iPod, click "No" to syncing to the new computer and click "manually manage music" in the iPod preferences box of iTunes. Then you will have to manually drag songs from your new music collection in your mac iTunes to your iPod icon in iTunes.
There are programs like senuti (iTunes spelled backwards) or ipoddisk (at ipoddisk.ourbiti.com) that will copy your iPod contents from the iPod to your new computer. Apple doesn't allow this (and may not let this message stay either) because of copyright protection. They will allow you to copy any items purchased from the Apple store directly to your new computer (as long as you authorize that computer by logging into your iTunes account).
Hope this helps.
You have to either use the MAC or PC, and if you want
to use it permanently on MAC, you must "reconfigure"
the iPod under mac format, and that might mean your
PC iPod content might lost if you reinitialize it.
Post this also in iPod forum, for more experience
user knows how to do that.
Good Luck.
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