Can't get itunes to let me use my music

burned all of my cds to an external windows hardrive, i want to use that collection of music as the list of music on itunes to put some on my ipad, and 2 ipods, i have a lot of music, like 20000 songs, how do i index that collection in itunes?  everytime i open itunes, and tell it to look at my external hardrdive, which i can see has 22,000 songs on it, (in fact i use it in my car with my SYNC system) itunes tells me that it cannot find 14000 songs, and when i try to sync?? with my ipod (brand new 160gb version classic) i get 72 songs on it.  what is this not more simple, i don't think i am that dumb (work for a software company)  this should be as simple as > iTunes look here at this drive, index the music, copy to my iPod, and let me creat playlists to post to my iPad, and my iPod Nano?  what can't i do this???  every Apple product i own is so simple to use, why is iTunes so difficult????

Ditto.
You need to look for your itunes library under Computers and select it, then music.
Music column is for web based content not local content, just to confuse everyone.
AC

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