How to make my iTunes Library use the music which is already on my NAS?

Hi there,
I know there have already been some posts around the forum about having the iTunes library on external harddrives or NAS's.
Though my question is different to that question and the solution for those can't seem to cater for my issue.
In the other posts, most of them have the music on their MAC's or MacBooks already, and it was more of a migration of their iTunes Library.
My situation on the other hand is this:
I have recently bought a MacBook Air and sold my PC Desktop. Before I sold it, I backed up everything to my NAS, so my music is now sitting on the NAS.
I am now trying to have my iTunes library on my NAS instead of my MacBook Air. Since my MacBook Air is only 128GB, I cannot store all my music on my MacBook Air then migrate it to the NAS (Via some of the solutions I've found online). So those solutions would not work for me.
That is why I am here, asking this question:
If my music is already on the NAS, I have a clean iTunes (No music in it), and I don't mind if I my music folders get re-arranged from the doings of iTunes. How do I make my iTunes Library accommodate the songs I have on the NAS?
The reason I want to do this is because currently I have an iPhone, iPad, MacBook Air and Apple TV. My home sharing is on, so as you can imagine, if I wish to stream songs, it would be handy to have them in iTunes.
This is my first question, once this is solved, hopefully it will simultanously solve a second question I have in mind (Regarding having all my TV shows and Movies to be in the iTunes Library as well, the contents are currently on my NAS too).
Your help would be greatly appreciated, as I am new to OS X (Always been a Windows person, as I was a big gamer).
So far, I have to say, my experience on OS X and the Apple ecosystem is fantastic!

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