Potable hard drive help !!!!

I was wondering if anyone could help me ? I have 1TB of music on my Pc which I use when doing disco's. I have just bougt a MacBook and want to play my songs from the Pc of the MacBook. So if I bought a 1TB external hardrive would I be able to transfer all the songs from the Pc to the hardrive and then play the music from the MacBook ( I don't want to save the files on the mac, just play the music of it from the hardrive) ? As I know there are issues when using hardrives with mac and pc's because of file differences, so I was just wondering if this would work ?

Any help would be appriceated, many thanks

James

I don't see why not. storage hard drives and music files tend to be universal, but you might have a hard time playing the music from just the external hard drive. osx has to choose some player or another to play the music from, rather it be preview, vlc or iTunes.

If you want to use iTunes then you would have to create an iTunes library solely on the external, which could cause issues.
You could however, use a different player and happily play them from the external, but I'm not sure whether playlists would be possible, or whether you could cue tracks to play ahead of time. I need to experiment!

Thankyou ! no i wouldnt be using itunes to play the songs, it is a piece of softwae called 'Djay' all you need to do is a drag a song onto the 'virtual deck' and it starts playing. there are two decks so you can cue the next song up.

I think im gunna go for it and order the hardrive, fingers crossed !!!!!

cheers

Should be absolutely no problems then, just be aware of the formatting issue with the drive.
You may need something like NTFS mount to be able to read/write to the external.