Moving sony walkman content onto my ipod

Hi
I have a Sony ATRACs walkman and now bought the new 30gb ipod - for films and music on the plane - my question is....is it possible to move the music from my sony to the apple? I've tried treating the sony as a hard drive and dragging it across but that doesnt work...any ideas??
thanks in advance

Are the songs on the Sony walkman on your computer?
Can you drag the songs from the sony to the computer and then import those songs into iTunes?? (Drag them on to your harddrive, and then go to file-->add file to library in iTunes and add those tracks)
btabz

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