Can I put my itunes library on to an external hard drive

I'm looking to get some space off my pc. I have a lot of music stored on my hard drive and I want to put my itunes library onto an external hard drive. I have over 200 more cd's that I want to load into itunes account but i don't want to pay for getting more storage in my cloud when I have a 1 tb extrnal hard drive that I can use. Does anyone know if this would work? Any advice.......

Copy your ENTIRE iTunes FOLDER to an External Drive...
Full Details Here > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1751
Also see this migrate iTunes library post by turingtest2
To Operate iTunes from the External Drive...
On Windows, hold Shift, launch iTunes and select Choose library... and select the iTunes folder you copied to the external drive.
And also make sure that all is working to your Satisfaction before Deleting anything off your Internal Hard Drive

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If you have have not done it this way that could explain a lot...
Backup iTunes to an External Drive
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1751

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AnnieeR wrote:
Can anyone suggest anything??
these two reads may be helpful: one and two.

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