ITunes Library for External Hard drive on MacBook

Just switched to Mac. Old PC's iTunes library was on an external hard drive. I tried to access the external hard drive through iTunes on the MacBook and the iTunes Music folder shows up, but there are no files showing up. The external hard drive is connected to the Airport Extreme Base.
Through finder all of the music files show up on the external hard drive, but not through iTunes.
I would like to be able access the external hard drive from the mac and pc.
Thanks

it must have something to do with the Airport Extremem Base Station. I connected the externam hard drive directly to the MacBook and "Add to Library", and everything was added. Then I plugged the external hard drive into the Airpot again, and everything worked o.k., I am still missing 80 songs somewhere.

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