iTunes problem?

Question

A week ago I got an external hard drive for my computer since I was running low on my memory.
I eventually moved all my music to the external hard drive.
And alas, this created a problem.
iTunes cannot find my music anymore! I would have to individually, for each song, go to the file where I put it and help iTunes find it. This would be fine... if I had a few song. There's a problem though, I have 9 gigs worth of music. It would take forever for me to go through all of my songs and tell iTunes where my music is. Is there any way for iTunes to do this automatically?

Answer 1

This is pretty straightforward. You need to tell iTunes the location of your music library.

To do this (and I assume you have a windows machine), do the following:

1. connect your external drive if not connected
2. select Edit - Preferences
3. click the Advanced tab
4. Click the 'Change' button next to iTunes music location, and browse to the folder on the exernal disk which houses your music collection
5. Click "OK"

Best of luck!

Answer 2

your external drive is usually for back up, but any way.
go to file>> add folder to library and point itunes to your external hard drive. Better check the setting edit>>preferences>>advanced tab and uncheck the copy to itunes folder..... or itunes will copy it all back and that will take ages

Answer 3

In iTunes:

Preferences -> Advanced -> General

hit "Change" button and enter the correct path to your music library on your external HD. Close then re-launch iTunes.

Answer 4

Instead of clicking "Add File to Library" just click "Add Folder to Library" and just select the folder where all your music is, it might slow up for a few minutes (hell, its 9 gigs) but it should work.