Can't edit track info

I've recently switched to a MacMini from a Windows
laptop. All of my music was stored on an external
hard-drive. I have connected the hard-drive to the
MacMini, opened iTunes and dropped the music folder
into iTunes. All of my music is there, but it won't
let me edit the track info.
When I pull up the info on my external hard-drive,
the ownership and permissions section indicates that
it is read only. How do I get permission to write on
it?
The external hard-drive is formatted as a Windows NT
filesystem. Do I need to reformat my external
hard-drive to be able to write on it?
Congrats on the Mini, Macs are awesome! What you'll have to do is make yourself the "owner" of the files. They have an owner of the user from you Windows box. It is a pretty simple process.
In Finder navigate to the top level iTunes folder. Then click File->Get Info. At the bottom of the window is a permissions section. Click the arrow next to 'Details' under 'Ownership & Permissions' and then click the lock icon to change permissions. From there assign the 'Owner' as your user account name and make sure you set the access to 'Read & Write'. Everything else could be left the same.
Hope that helps you out.

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Hi Franklin777,
If you are having issues with your Apple ID, this article will get you started.
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Hello Andy, You're not talking to Apple here, this is a user-to-user forum.
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Looking at a sample file what have you got on the Proprties > Security tab?
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Go to your Music (media) folder. The one that holds the actual files.
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