How to transfer playlist from windows xp to Mac

I purchased some songs in iTunes on a Windows XP system. But my CD burner doesn't work,
so now I want to transfer the same playlist to my MacBook Pro so I can burn the CD on the Mac.
How do I transfer iTunes Playlist from a Windows XP computer to a MacBook Pro??
thanks!!

Why don't you just transfer a copy fo the songs to the MacBook and recreate the playlist manually?
You see inside the iTunes folder on the PC (or the Mac) is a XML file that you can open in a text editor/notepad type program with "find and replace" ability.
As long as the songs are the same on both machines and organized the same in iTunes (Advanced preferences), their pathnames should be the same, all except of course everything BEFORE the   /TunesFolder/.....
So if you transfer a copy of this file on a USB key to the Mac from the PC and "find and replace" (Text Edit) all the partial pathnames from the PC to the Mac pathname. Then replace the Mac XML file in the iTunes folder with the one from the PC, when iTunes loads the file when it starts it will locate all your songs.
Your going to lose the playlists on the Mac natually, or you can backup the file before replacing and return it when your done?
Making sense?

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