I would like to no if there is a way to have a version of iTunes on an external hard drive

I have several external hard drives lying around with thousands of songs on them some 10+ years old. I would like to know if there is a way I can create another copy of my current itunes and store all my music pics ect. On an external hard drive. I would like to be able to access this hard drive from my MacBook pro late 2013 Yosemite 512gb flash 8 gb of ram, iPad Air 64gb iOS 8. Mainly my music is taking up most of my storage on my MacBook and I want everything in one place easily accessable preferably wireless. I'm trying to get ideas if this can even be done and if so some guidance on selecting an external hard drive and how to go about creating o copy of my current iTunes and how to add my older stuff from my older external hard drives to the the new copy of iTunes. Right now I'm running the latest version of itunes.

Drag the iTunes library to the desired location, launch iTunes with the Option key held down, and choose that library.
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A very helpful postee got to the end of his knowledge level, so I am posting this for you tech guys to sort out. Bit long because I've tried to set it out step by step. Briefly I'm new to iTunes and my laptop has a very small hard drive and is virtually full and due to be replaced. So I want to use an external hard drive.
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1. Which of the two locations will iTunes choose when I add music? Surely it will go with the original pathway laid down in the directory when iTunes was installed, and ignore my external Hard Drive? I mean, how can there be two automatic locations?!!!
2.. I don't mind itunes library being on my laptop as this is just a list, but it obvoiusly has to have a pathway to the site where the actual AAC files are stored.
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4. How then do I get it all on the external since merely changing "preferences" doesn't do the job?
5. Is this perhaps the reason why so many people report that iTunes does not recognize their external hard disk:
http://www.ehow.com/info_12199596_external-hard-drive-not-recognized-itun es.html
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Move or Copy entire working library from current location to the root of your external drive. Press & hold down shift (option on a Mac) as you click the icon to start iTunes. Click Choose when prompted, then browse to ..\iTunes\iTunes Library.itl on the external. If you copied the library across then test your new library works properly after renaming the original folder, before deleting the original folder to recover space.
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