External Mount Point for ~/music?

I would like to mount external drives to mount points such as ~/music or ~/movies in my home directory. From an organization perspective this can make life much easier to manage. Has anyone done this? Is there any problem that anyone knows of with changing one of these pre-designated locations to a mount point?

I have no experience in mounting the whole external drive inside my home folder, but I have stored my iTunes library on an external and just put an Alias called "iTunes" pointing to the folder on the external drive in the "Music" folder in my Home. I believe the same will work within "Movies".
BTW: Aliases within the "iTunes Media" folder (like "Music", "Movies" or "TV Shows") do NOT work, though - you have to move either the complete "iTunes Media" folder to the external drive or the whole "iTunes" folder.

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