PC to Mac Transfers

I just bought a macbook and am a previous PC user. My PC crashed and nothing was recoverable, including my music. I have it all on my ipod but can I connect to to my macbook or will I have to reformat and lose all my music in the process?
Anyone know of anything?

If you purchased all your content from iTunes, all you need to do is authorize your Macbook with your Apple ID. Once this is done, connect the iPod; you should get a message giving you three options: Erase+Sync=NO, Cancel=No, Transfer Purchases=Yes. This will transfer all your purchases from the iPod, to your iTunes library. If you don't get a window asking for these options, in iTunes, click on File>Transfer Purchases from iPod. Now, if you have multiple accounts, and have content from multiple accounts, you will need to authorize the computer with the next Apple ID and repeat.
As for the re-formating question, an iPod in Windows Format can be read on PC and MAC, a Mac formated iPod can only be read on MACs. Since you were using it with the PC, you're all good.

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