Moved User Home Folder to External - What to do with iTunes settings?

I used these instructions to move my User Home Folder off Mac hard drive and onto an external hard drive http://mac.tutsplus.com/tutorials/os-x/relocate-your-home-folder-to-another-driv e-or-volume. Do I need to go into advanced settings of iTunes and change the location to the external or do I just keep the location the same as before the move via these instructions?

turingtest2 wrote:
OK. The following should clear up your particular scenario. I strongly recommend you backup the whole iTunes folder to another drive first. When you're happy everything is tidy and working properly you can make a backup of the "clean" library before deleting the backup of the "duplicated" one.
In iTunes > Preferences > Advanced turn off both the Keep... & Copy... options.
Use File > Add Folder to Library... to add in the media folder, this ensures iTunes is connected to both copies of the files.
Create a new smart playlist with the rule Location is on this computer.
3a. Select the new smart playlist
Hold down Option and then click View > Display Exact Duplicate items.
Sort the list by Date Added
Select everything that you've just added with today's date, then press Option-Delete to remove from the library, send to the trash when asked
Use View > Show All Items and then Option > View > Show Exact Duplicate Items to reveal any remaining duplicates.
If needed, sort by Name and keep one of each repeat group, using Option-Delete to remove any dupes
In iTunes > Preferences > Advanced turn on both the Keep... & Copy... options to clean up all the trailing " 1"s
tt2

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