PC to Mac mini, help please

Hi, I'm still new to Mac and even newer to things like networking.
I have a PC that has over 800 songs that I want to transfer into my Mac mini before my iPod Shuffle arrives through the mail.
The reason is the many problems that the Shuffle has when interacting with Windows PCs according to Apple Discussions. I want to move the PC out of the way and into the basement as soon as this is done
So my question is how do I transfer my songs without burning 800 songs to CDs? Can I hook up the two computers through the ethernet ports?
The PC has no firewire ports but has usb ports.
Do I need software to do the transfers also? If so is there any free software on the web to use?
Thanks to all who respond.

Thanks for help but it still hasn't worked for me.
Jesse Jay when I try the smb://... I keep getting "The Finder cannot complete the operation because some data in "smb://..." could not be read or written (error code -36)" any clues what this means?
kd5bloc you stated "The second solution was much easier...Enable the networking from the Mac, and finding it via Windows". Maybe this will work if it will allow Mac to compy music files from PC, but once networking is enabled on the Mac how do you find it using Windows?
To anyone else who has or knows how to connect a Mac Panther to PC XP directly through ethernet for the purposes of transfering music files from the PC to the Mac please by all means leave instructions or links to articles on the web if you know any.
I have spent many hours reading articles and trying to get it to work but I just can't. Thanks to all who reply.
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