How to use two harddrives on one Macbook Pro to store Itunes music

I have 2 harddrives in my macbook pro and have more music than can be on one drive.   I Know that I can get Itunes to point to either drive but not to both at the same time. Does anyone know how to accomplish using both drives "seamlessly" with one copy of Itunes on one Macbook Pro, please? I do not intend to swap drives. Both would be on at all times.

I keep mine on multiple internal drives by completely disabling iTunes automatically managing music for me, but if you do that you are also responsible for keeping things organized yourself.  There's various other advantages and disadvantages to doing it that way but it isn't for  people who don't like tinkering with how things work but just want it to  do it for them.
You can tell iTunes to change where to store media and it will put new media in that location from that point on unless you do a consolidate/organize in which case you're in trouble if it can't put it all together in one place.

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