Hello, good evening, I have a MacBook Pro late 2012 with 128GB of space.
I have all my music folders stored there, but I’m running out of space on my hard drive.
The hardware I have is a Prime 4+, with a 1TB hard drive.
What’s the best solution to free up the space I’ve been taking up on my Mac and keep my playlists the same way they were?
Then backup your current MacBook drive to a 3rd one using Time Machine… after that install the new hard drive and do a fresh install using your Time Machine backup to restore your music and create space.
This is the wrong forum for this though, you need to be on apple forums seeking advice on how to do the above.
It’s only a few years later that apple decides to solder solid state drives to the motherboard. Just buy a 2 or 4TB SSD and replace it, and restore the backups described above. Or buy a new machine, because I wouldn’t be surprised if soon Engine DJ 5.x won’t be backward compatible with a 2012 machine, forcing you to use an older version of Engine OS. If you are fine with that older version though, go ahead!
EDIT (due to STUC remark below): you are already in the unsupported area, one step further is things effectively not working…
(Just speculating about the 5.x thing here to make a point….)
You could even wonder why you still need a laptop (versus fixed computer) or even a Mac (vs PC). You won’t be playing out with it (whole point of Engine OS), and the big advantage of mac was always the superb built in sound card drivers. Everything is possible (although personally I would stick with mac)
Beware though that migrating a Engine database from mac to PC isn’t trivial… do your research about this in advance!