External harddrive created with Windows 10 laptop to MacBook

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Hi all. I do a bit of DJ-ing occasionally, and I've always used an HP Windows 10 laptop with an external hd which has all my music on in mp3 format. I run Serato software for the DJ-ing btw.

My question is, I've just bought a MacBook Pro, and I want to run the same (freshly bought) software on it for DJ-ing instead of the HP. Can anyone foresee a problem with the Mac reading and playing those files if I use the same hd?

I'm thinking itunes will fire up and try and import the whole lot, I haven't got a problem with that as long as I've got full access to them on the night.

Many thanks in advance.

[alexmonkey]

You may find the Mac can read from but not write to the external hard drive, depending on whether it is formatted for Windows ("NTFS" format) or the older "FAT" format.

I'd recommend buying a new external hard drive - a 2.5 inch (portable) version will be more-robust than a larger 3.5 inch jobber - and copy your music on to that. Amazon.co.uk tends to be a good place to buy, and Western Digital or Seagate are generally good brands.

Might be worth buying two hard drives and making a copy of your music to keep safe somewhere accessible on the night should hard drive #1 suddenly go u/s...

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alexmonkey said:

You may find the Mac can read from but not write to the external hard drive, depending on whether it is formatted for Windows ("NTFS" format) or the older "FAT" format.

I'd recommend buying a new external hard drive - a 2.5 inch (portable) version will be more-robust than a larger 3.5 inch jobber - and copy your music on to that. Amazon.co.uk tends to be a good place to buy, and Western Digital or Seagate are generally good brands.

Might be worth buying two hard drives and making a copy of your music to keep safe somewhere accessible on the night should hard drive #1 suddenly go u/s...

Cheers. I'm doing that as I write, copying everything onto another hd in case I mess one up. If the Mac can read and play the existing files, that's fine tbh. There's about 150000 tunes on there, so I've got enough to keep me going, I'm not planning to add anymore (mainly a retro DJ).

[alexmonkey]

Got a Soundcloud/Mixcloud URL I can check you out on? I'm always on the lookout for tuneage to pass the work day (-:

Cheers - Al

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Ha, sorry, nothing like that.

It's mainly cheesy 70s and 80s stuff for local retro nights. We're doing a tent at a local festival soon, and I didn't trust my tired old HP to do the job, so I just wanted to bring things up to date equipment-wise.

Thanks for the help anyway.

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alexmonkey said:

You may find the Mac can read from but not write to the external hard drive, depending on whether it is formatted for Windows ("NTFS" format) or the older "FAT" format.

I'd recommend buying a new external hard drive - a 2.5 inch (portable) version will be more-robust than a larger 3.5 inch jobber - and copy your music on to that. Amazon.co.uk tends to be a good place to buy, and Western Digital or Seagate are generally good brands.

Might be worth buying two hard drives and making a copy of your music to keep safe somewhere accessible on the night should hard drive #1 suddenly go u/s...

Cheers. I'm doing that as I write, copying everything onto another hd in case I mess one up. If the Mac can read and play the existing files, that's fine tbh. There's about 150000 tunes on there, so I've got enough to keep me going, I'm not planning to add anymore (mainly a retro DJ).

You can install a paragon ntfs driver on the mac to read and write to ntfs drives.