Moving music from another mp3 player

I have a different mp3 player with a large library of music acquired from various sources. I just received an ipod nano as a gift. Is there any way to transfer my music from my old player to the ipod? I paid good money for my library and I hate to lose it!

Welcome to the forums!
iTunes is the only way I know of to get songs into your new iPod. SO the trick is to get your old libraru into iTunes.
So you have to know what format they are in now. Maybe WMA or mp3. iTunes works well with mp3 and I think it can convert non-protected WMA as well so you have to find a way to get the files into a format that will work.
Once you have a method you can just drag the files into iTunes and it will do the rest.
Regards
Yosam

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