Songs cannot be copied because they cannot be played on this ipod

I'm trying to put my new styx cds on my ipod that I got for Christmas but when I try to drag them and put them on my ipod it says 'These songs cannot be copied because they cannot be played on this type of Ipod.' I've imported the CD and all that but it still says this.. HELP! PLEASE!

Sounds like the songs are in a format the iPod does not recognize. If you have these songs already imported on iTunes, select all of the songs (in this case the Styx songs) then from advanced menu in iTunes select convert selection to ACC, now once iTunes is done converting, re-sync the tunes back up to your iPod, and see if they are recognized.
Regards--- jgurbisz
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