How to hide remote music from itunes list?

Question

I have a NAS in my network that hosts most of my music albums. I added these to itunes but without copying to my harddrive due to limited space on my HDD. Whenever the NAS is turned off or I am not in my home network iTunes still displays all the titles obviously but whenever I click on it it freezes for 15/20 seconds, then tells me that the connection to th NAS was not possible and asks if I want to search for the new location.
Especially the freezing is verry annoying since there is no way to see if the media location is local or remote.
Is there any way to filter all media and separate between local an remote media with a click of a button, hiding all remote media if I know my nas is not available and by this not showing any serach results in my library form the remote NAS?

Answer 1

Hi there poffel78,
You can use the "Show iTunes in the Cloud purchases" check box found under iTunes > Preferences... > Store to hide or display items purchased from the iTunes Store that haven’t been downloaded to your computer. Take a look at the article below for more information.
iTunes 11 for Mac: iTunes Store preferences
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12263
-Griff W.