Changed music location - itunes won't update list?

I have all of my music on a new hard drive and pointed iTunes to that as my music location. I want it to go through and make sure all the music in there is in the iTunes playlist - can this be done?
edit: I guess I could clear my list and drag all the music over, but there's a lot and I hate that iTunes always attempts to do the gapless playback thing. (On a related note, why does Apple add a lot of features without a toggle option?)
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pointed iTunes to that as my music location
That simply tells iTunes where you want new music to go.
It is still looking for your music in the old location.
Quit iTunes.
Move the music back to where it was (Music\iTunes\iTunes music folder).
Restart iTunes.
All teh music should work.
Point iTunes prefs -> Advanced -> iTunes music folder location to where you want the music to be located.
Now go to iTunes menu File -> Library -> Consolidate.
This will copy everything in iTunes to the new location and use that for everything.
Then you can delete \Music\iTunes\iTunes music folder.

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