How do I load my music from my external hard drive without saving it to my computer?

I have alot of music and all of it is saved on my external hard drive.  I dont want to save any of the music on my computer because it takes up too much space.  I just want to be able to play my music from my external hard drive.  Can someone answer this?

Did you import the music on the external hard drive into your iTunes library on your new PC or point iTunes at the location of your library stored on the external hard drive?
B-rock

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