How do i put songs from my external hard drive to itunes...

...without actually transfering the songs themselves to the mac mini hard drive, so basically i want to keep all me music on the 320gb external drive, and none on the mac drive, but still keep them in the itunes library.

turn off itune's preference setting to "copy files..." under the advanced tab.

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