I have my music loaded in Real Player and iTunes won't read it?

Hi, I'm new to ipods...
I have a library of 87g of music on a external hard drive. I'm trying to convert all my music so I can play it on my Ipod and I can't. does it means that I have to re load all my CD to the compter read by itunes or there is a program or a software that I can use to convert it to iTunes Format?
Thanks

Doesn't matter, those are Real Audio format files and iTunes can't directly import them.
You are going to need conversion software such as:
http://www.coolutils.com/RealAudio-to-MP3 (You can also convert to AAC)
http://all-streaming-media.com/convert-audio-video-files/
or Google for more.

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5. Then we need to navigate to the hidden music files. Type "cd iPod_Control" hit return and then type "cd Music" and hit return, always without quotation marks.
6. Let's check if your music works. Type "ls" and return. A list should appear, starting with something like F00, F01, F02 etc. Take the first entry in the list, let's say it is F00 and type in "open F00". A finder window appears with all the music in folder F00. The files will be called something like AAVP.m4a. Right click or control click the first one and go to "Open With" and choose "Quicktime Player". One random piece of your music should play now. If we got that far, we know (at least some of) your music is still intact.
7. Let's copy the music from your iPod to the computer. Create a new folder on the Desktop and call it "Music". Go back to the terminal, make sure a) that you have enough space on your computer hard disk (60 GB) and b) that you are still in the folder
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