My old ipod & my new mac

i have an old version 3.1.1 ipod (says formatted for windows)
i always sync'd it manually. I just recently bought a imac and was wondering if i can set this old ipod to sync automatically with my itunes WITHOUT losing all my old music stored on the ipod.
i guess thats like reverse synch'ing because i want my itunes to be current with the music on my ipod initially then have the two stay in sync after that.

if i can set this old ipod to sync automatically with my itunes WITHOUT losing all my old music stored on the ipod.
Not unless you have all the music currently on your iPod stored in the iTunes library on your new iMac.
If you don't, try Senuti.
It's a program that transfers music from iPod to iTunes on a Mac.
As is Music Rescue.
Both of these should work with a Windows formatted iPod because Macs can read and write to FAT32 formatted drives.

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