Is there a way for my hard drive to show up in itunes?

MY hard drive is getting full on my computer and i was wondering if there is a way to have my external hard drive show up in itunes so i can play music off of it? Let me know thanks

I should have been clearer in my description. The drive will not be in iTunes as a device. You can feed iTunes from it. I have different folders in different locations on my external hard drive and internal drive that I keep my iTunes stuff in. They are not all in the music folder that iTunes lists. One thing to be sure of no matter where you point the *Tunes Music Folder location* to, turn off the *Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library* or you may end up with duplicates.

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