Moving from PC to MAC - need advice on mass music storage

Hi all,
I am moving my PC music from an external drive to my iMAC.
I Work as a full time DJ also and have 2 x 1TB external hard drives with nearly 2,500 albums. Now some of these albums are specialist DJ albums which I have tagged myself (with album name - ie, DJ 80s collection 1 - and the name of the songs)
These work well for me.
Now my question is this:
When i transfered 1 of the specialist DJ albums over, into iTunes on my iMac it started to break them into separate albums which I don't want.
ok - so what I want to do is this. Keep all my DJ music either on a separate external hard drive and keep them 100% away from iTunes and only drag my proper albums ie, ColdPlay CD etc over where they stay in there proper album form.
I want iTunes on my iMac to stay clean looking with all songs in there proper albums with artwork etc and all my DJ music separate and NOT in iTunes.
If anyone can help the best way of doing this - Brilliant!
ps, is there a separate music player that I can use for my DJ music?
Also is Nero available for Mac - or any FREE software you can recommend?
Ade

iTunes does allow you to create multiple music libraries -- just hold down the Option key when starting the program. This way you could create one normal, clean library, and have another with your DJ-related songs.
For those DJ-related songs, you might consider replicating the CDs in the form of playlists -- like your DJ 80s Collection.
And for DJ software, you should take a look at DJay (which also runs on the iPhone and the iPad). While not free, it works remarkably well. A demo version is available.
Good luck.

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