All of my music doesn't fit on one drive

I would like iTunes to organize my entire collection, but my music collection is more than 300gb and requires two drives. My collection is very well organized, but has more than 1 year worth of continuous music play. Can iTunes be told that there is an 'iTunes' folder in more than one location?

The tracks are most likely still protected, since not all tracks are eligible for matching. You should enable the iCloud Status column in the iTunes browser to see what status the tracks are. If they are "uploaded" then all you did was re-download the protected files.
To enable the column switch to Song (or List) view, pull down View > View Options. Select "iCloud Status" and close with window. Post back and let us know what the status of the tracks in question are.

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