Moving music folders without loosing covers and information

I am using iTunes mainly to manage music on my iPhone and to edit album covers/song information of my MP3s. However, I am managing my music and music folders manually in a folder system that is not part of "iTunes Preferences -> Advanced -> iTunes Music folder location". Riping is also done not via iTunes. So every time I add a new CD I do that via drag and drop from my folder system.
Since I have recently bought a NAS I would like to move my Folder System to that NAS. Obviously after doing so, iTunes does no longer find the songs. So I deleted the information in iTunes and added the moved content again via drag and drop.
This is where the problem starts. It seems that the information that I added in iTunes (covers, genre, etc.) gets lost in the process. Apparently this is stored in the library and not in the ID3 Tag of the files. Otherwise iTunes would be able to recontruct the database 100% from the import process.
Obviously I do not want to do the editing again (the library is rather large). To look for every single trak and seek its new location also is by far to time consuming.
So, my question is: How can I move my folder structure to a new location keeping the information that I added in an automated way with minimal manual input?
Thanks for your help!
Message was edited by: Duschkoenig

This has been solved now. Since the answer might be of interest to some other users having the same issue, here is what to do.
1.) Copy the music files to the new location. Thereby you retain the original folder and nameing structure.
2.) Add all files to itunes again (drag and drop them into the applcation). The iTunes database will recognise that the music files are the same as the ones it already knows with just the location changed. Therefore it will add all the information relating to the old files it has in its database to the new files.
3.) Sort your database by date added.
4.) Delete all files in the datebase with a date before step 2.). The information stays with the new entries as desired.
Et voila ...
Esentially you just change the workflow from my original posting. You delete after you add not the other way round. Worked for me with a rather large numer of tracks ...
DK

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