How to make iTunes watch a shared disk for new music?

I have a small home network with a shred disk with all the music we purchased ripped neatly into it.
I wish my iTunes software to watch this disk and let me play music from there and creates playlists in order to update my iPOD.
I do not wish to manually import every time as existing songs are imported over and over and if I clear the library and re import the playlists are erased.
Please suggest a solution.
Thanks

Shalom, Ofer.
iTunes doesn't offer any sort of folder watching feature.
about If the folder is added once more - I get duplicates.
That shouldn't happen.
Unless your files on the server are WMAs, or you have messed up settings.

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