HT4527 How can I relocate my music so it lives outside my computer in a hard drive? I'm running out of hard drive space.

How can I relocate my music so it lives outside my computer in a hard drive? I'm running out of hard drive space.

The referenced article does not address the issue of just moving the music files outside my iMac, then still use my iMac and iTunes to manipulate those files without them adding bulk memory space to my iMac.  Would like to have the link or alias, or path fully described so that I may keep adding more music.  Plus one more thing, I would like to be guided as to how to back all of this music onto my capsule via time machine.

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