Music transfer: pc to imac

i was led to believe from numerous sources i could transfer my itunes library from my dell to my imac relatively easily. one suggestion was that my ipod will function strictly as an external harddrive, as opposed to a portable entertainment device. is this so? do i set up my ipod on the mac first as usual? any other suggestions? thank you.

You can use these instructions to move the iTunes library from one machine to another with your iPod. A third-party application called MacDrive can be used to work with Mac formatted disks on a PC.
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