Front Row not finding music anymore

My front row has suddenly decided that it can't find my music anymore. It used to work but now it simply tells me that i need to add music to iTunes.
any advice?

Everything I can see in Front Row is stored on my external HD, and all was working fine until recently. Therefore, it would seem that Front Row does read from the external disc, but will not update from it. I am presuming it is the Library Data file that is not updating.
All works fine in iTunes, it's just in Front Row that I have the problem (that applies to music, movies, podcasts, etc.).
When you say add an alias, I am presuming that is to point iTunes to my music library, but that is not a problem, because iTunes is already pointing to my music library, using the "consolidation" command.
Where exactly did you put our alias ? I tried putting on in the iTunes folder (on the internal drive), but Front Row seems to look at the iTunes Library Data file. If I put a movies alias in my Movies folder (not the one in iTunes but the one in the User folder), Front Row will see that, because it sees that folder in addition to the iTunes Movie folder. However, all of my movies are in the iTunes movies folder, because they sync from there to my Apple TV.

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