How do I get my music form my external hard drive to show up in iTunes?

I have a five hundred GB hard drive with over 30000 songs on it that I would like to show up in Itunes. I don't have enough space for all of the songs on my computer though. I've gone through all the advanced setting and clicked the right files but they're not showing up in my iTunes library. I use iTunes for Windows, but the computer that all of the music came from was a computer that used a newer version. Could that be part of the problem or am I just doing something wrong?

In your iTunes menu, click "FILE, Add Folder to library", select your external Drive, then click the SELECT FOLDER Button.  All music in the external drive should appear in your iTunes.

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