External hard drive 2TB NTFS USB To Mac

Hello All,
I have a Seagate Free Agent 2TB Hard drive formatted with a NTFS Partition on it...(USB) Filled with 300GB of music that I copied from my cds.. I would like to work with the mp3s on my mac can that be done??
From all the other forums that I have read that it says it can be done.. Is this true?? All I want to is plug the drive in and let it reconize my mac and then copy the file to the mac internal hard drive.. Can this be done??
Thank you

hey, i have the same request but after I plugged the USB hard drive in MacBook Pro, nothing happens, i cannot even find the disk in Finder.
that drive is readable in my Dell.
anything else am I missing?

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