New MacBoo Pro User

I just got my first MacBook. I need help with downloading all the music off my iPod. I think because I moved from a Dell running Window's Vista some of my music is coded in a way that the Mac doesn't understand...like a .CDA file. Can anyone assist me? I'd hate to loose any music. So far this is frustrating and I'm not liking my new Macbook.

If the music is on your iOS device, you can connect that device to your new MBP and when it shows up in iTunes, right click on it and choose the option to "import purchases"
Before you do this however, make sure you open iTunes and setup your account information in it for the iTunes store. It will then transfer your licenses from the iTunes store to the iTunes app on your MBP and ask you to authorize that new computer.
I have had to transfer mu music a few times between machines.
Also, before you attempt to import anything to the new system, make sure you go through all of your settings in iTunes first. When you choose to import media from other sources, it may attempt to transcode it. Depending on your settings in iTunes, this may not be a desirable thing.
Lastly, if you copied all your media files to an external hard disk or a DVD / CD or a usb flash drive, you can tell iTunes to import the media from those sources. Doing this will force iTunes to copy the media from the source where you importing it from to wherever iTunes has been configured to store your media library on your new MBP.
To manually import from another source, open iTunes, from the menu bar at the top of the screen, click on the File option. From the menu that is now displayed, choose "Add to Library" (HINT: You can also use the Command key + O to do the same thing.) Now select the current location of your media files. iTunes should do the rest for you. If it can import the media file type it will either directly import it or attempt to transcode it into a format that iTunes can use.
Best of luck too you and welcome to the Apple family.

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