How do I tell itunes that my music is located on an SD card without going to find each individual song for itunes?

I ran out of room on my computer so I needed to move my music to my sd card. Each time I try to play a song on itunes it says it cannot be found. If I show itunes where my SD card is located it will play the song. However, I don't want to do this for each of my individual songs. How can I tell my itunes that all of my music is located on an SD card?

Sorry, I should have been clearer ... was your music previously located within the iTunes Media folder, by default C:\Users\username\Music\iTunes\iTunes Media)?  If possible, you should move the music back to its original location, verify that your links have been restored (i.e., you can play songs without getting error messages) and then in iTunes:
update these settings in Edit > Preferences > Advanced:
Change this to be something similar on your SD card - ideally, you should have an iTunes folder in the root of the card, and an iTunes Media folder within this.
This setting will ensure iTunes manages the folder structure and files within the iTunes Media folder
This setting tells iTunes to copy any new additions to your library into the iTunes Media folder on the SD card.
If you are prompted to allow iTunes to reorganize files click No.
Now select File > Library > Organize Library... (click Ctrl-B first if you don't see the menu bar), and when you see this prompt:
check the Consolidate files box and, if not greyed out, the Reorganize files ... box, then click OK.
iTunes will now copy your music from its existing location(s) to the iTunes Media folder on your SD card
When this process completes, check that everything plays correctly, and also check a few songs (right-click > Get Info > File tab) to verify that the location information held by iTunes is on the SD card.
Once everything looks OK, you can delete the music files/folders from their original location(s) on the C: drive.
The underlying issue here is that iTunes doesn't keep track of the location of your media files if you move them yourself.  The process described above uses iTunes to move the files, and therefore to update its database so that is has the correct locations.

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