Can I tunes play music from more than one directory?

Can anyone tell me if its possible to store music files in more than one location, say my I Mac hard drive and also an external hard drive, and set I tunes to play fiels from both locations? This is possible with Windows Media player.

If you open iTunes and go to Preferences>Advanced>General you'll see a box "Copy files to iTunes Music when adding to library". If you have this box unchecked then anything you add to the library from say a music folder on your hard drive and another music folder on a second drive get added to the library but but remain in the original location. The library will contain the location information so the song file can be accessed when you want to play it. Of course this would mean that any songs located on the external drive could only be accessed when the drive was connected.

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