ITunes Fails to Play Music from Library on External Disk

I just updated to iTunes 11.2.2 on my macMini following an update to OS X 10.9.3. I have my music library stored on an external 1TB firewire disk and some on a second gen iPod. The iPod music is accessable and will play but the music on the external disk, while showing up correctly in iTunes, will not play. I can't even play the music from within finder (no play icon on the music file icon in finder.) I can use the right click menu option to show a music item in iTunes in Finder and it knows right where it is so it seems itunes is fully aware of the libraries location on the external drive.
One additional point is that I also install Xcode 6 Beta which would not install with iTunes opened. I was wondering if the beta of Xcode 6 is at issue? If is what will be needed to backout that instalation? What changes does Xcode 6 do that affects iTunes in the first place? Maybe it isn't Xcode 6 but something else just not sure.

A few possibilities here:
1) It's possible the update caused iTunes to loose the link to your Library:
check the advanced tab look at the first item named "iTunes Media Folder location"
even if this appears to be correct, wouldn't hurt to click the "Change" button and point to your library
RESTART itunes immediately and see if this helps.
2) Is there a chance that your external drive wasn't mounted before launching iTunes? I know that this is problem on Windoze, maybe Mac too?
3) see an old link named "
Re: Using an external disk for iTunes
( https://discussions.apple.com/message/11037477#11037477 )
4) There's always the possibility that Apple (in it's infinite wisdom) has removed the option supporting external disks: however, if this were the case I'd expect to see numerous posts on the topic.
ONE WARNING:
Don't sync your iPod to your iTunes library till you resolve this.
HTH, Alix

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