Windows itunes to Mac itunes.

I have all my itunes material on a lacie external harddrive. All the songs were originally on a windows computer. Can I just plug in the external when I get my Mac?
Do I need to do anything special?
Thanks, Levi

How was your Lacie formatted? If it was formatted in the common Windows format of NTFS, you will have a problem as NTFS is a read only for a Mac. I had the same issue with my Lacie when I moved off a PC to my Mac, the Mac would not read the EHD. I ended up having to use iPodRip to take my library off my iPod onto the Mac.

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