How to transfer music from PC to Mac?

I'm trying to transfer music from my PC to my MacBook Pro before college. I have a wireless network set up that I could use to copy my music, but that has just been copying files. I also want to transfer my playlists, though, so that I don't have to make them all over again. I read on the Apple web site that you can use your iPod as a hard disk to do this, but I'm not sure if this will work between PC and Mac because it is formatted for my PC. If this is possible, could someone tell me how to go about it? Or suggest another way to get my playlists onto my Mac?

See: http://lifehacker.com/242468/geek-to-live--how-to-move-an-itunes-library-from-a- pc-to-mac-and-back
or: http://www.myfirstmac.com/index.php/mac/articles/how-do-i-move-my-itunes-library -from-pc-to-mac-and-keep-my-settings-intact
If you already have your music over and just want to get the normal (non-smart) playlists over, you can also go to PC and export the playlist to a file ("File" > "Library" > "Export Playlist...") and then import that into iTunes on the Mac.

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