How to - play music on E: with iTunes on C:

I bought a 500gb My Book and loaded a bunch of music on there. iTunes resides on my root C: drive. I'd like to keep iTunes on C: so I can sync my ipod to a playlist without having to connect the E: drive to the laptop.
iTunes works great for playing the music on E:, but everytime it plays a song from that drive it copies over to the iTunes music library on C:.
Is there a setting that allows iTunes to just be used as the player while not copying and managing the music files on the extra drive? I only have a 60gb drive on my laptop which is almost full. I have a thousand CD's I'm trying to get on to iTunes.
thx - Mike

Is there a setting that allows iTunes to just be used
as the player while not copying and managing the
music files on the extra drive?
Hi
The setting you are looking for is in
Edit > Preferences > Advanced tab
in there you need to untick the "copy files to itunes Music folder when adding to library"
(or you could do what I have and change the itunes music library to your E: drive.)
unfortunately you wont be able to sync these files on the E: drive without it being connected
hope this helps
dave
Legend 201   Windows XP   2.5GHz P4 768Mb

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