Old computer Windows new one Mac. How do I switch my iPod

Okay so I'm getting a new iMac tuesday. This computer is horrible so I want to start loading music into my new one. How do I switch my iPod video from windows to apple?
I'm asking this because I plugged my iPod mini into a friends apple and it no longer worked on my windows. I was lucky I was soon getting a new one but that is not the case here, so I would reallyreallyreally hugely appreciate some help. Thanks soso much
-Rebecca
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Apple has done such a great job with the iPod that it is easy to forgot how complex the entire system is. The hardware is the easy part, it is the software that's really complex. iTunes catalogs our music and lets us arrange our playlists but it also keeps track of authorized music, play counts, songs skipped, and all the other things that the iPod and iTunes keep track of together. Others have designed credible mp3 players (Sans Disk for example) but no one has put together anything that can rival the iPod<->iTunes<->iTunes Store.
Which brings me to the point of this post. When something goes wrong it can be difficult to determine just what the problem is. When someone's iPod fails to sync, the quick conclusion people tend to reach is that there's something wrong with the iPod, but as you discovered that isn't necessarily the case. A failure to sync can be hardware related (iPod, computer, cable) or software releated (iPod, computer, iTunes) and unfortunately we don't always get an error message that pinpoints the problem.
In your case the problem was with music on your computer's hard drive. If you haven't already done so, I'd urge you to run a disk diagnostic and if possible back up your music. There are two possibilities: those songs have always been defective on that computer and you just now discovered it, or, those songs were okay and have 'died' since the last time you played them. If the former is true you'll want to check out the songs you added at the same time and/or from the same source. If the latter, you may have some serious hard drive issues developing.

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