Is there a way to distribute movies, music, podcasts, etc. across multiple drives?

I have a need to find a way to "trisect" my iTunes library to make way for movies, as I rip my DVD library. Ideally, I would like to get all movies on an external drive (3 TB) and leave music and podcasts on the internal drive where they now reside. Is this possible, and if so, what is the best procedure?

You can physically move them to as many drives as you want.
Your iTunes library however can ONLY point to a single location, so it will ONLY be able to access whatever's in that one location.
Additionally, if you use FrontRow (not many do these days), it CAN'T access media on external drives.

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