Nano from Mac to Pc

I bought a nanpod for my brother who is a pc user, I understan d I can format the nanopod with a pc and load him music from my mac, but not the other way around. Is it this correct?
Thank you so much for helping.

That's correct. An iPod formatted for Mac won't run natively on a PC because the Windows OS does not support the HFS Plus file system and therefore will not see the drive. You can format your iPod on Windows if you want to use it on both platforms as Macs can read Windows formatting. I've seen ocassional posts on the forum where there have been problems but these would be the exception.

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