How to transfer music already on comp to iTunes

How do I transfer music that is already on my computer to mu shuffle? When I do go to file import, all it searches for are .txt files.
Any help will be greatly appreciated

Welcome, Sean, to the Apple Discussions!
Here's the basic method for transferring songs to the
i shuffle:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93732
Note that the
i shuffle
does
b not
allow you to load music from multiple computers/iTunes libraries.
If this isn't the answer you're looking for, post back and explain in more detail just what you're doing and what's happening.

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