Music transfer from ext HD to itunes

Ive been trying to transfer music from my external HD to my ipod (3rd gen nano).The music goes into the music folder but will not show i the library.I then have to import to library to get the songs into itunes and I can only do one song at a time - this is pretty boring! Is there another way , am i going about this the correct way?

On the iTunes File menu there are two "Add" options, one if for files and the other for directories (it says folders)... just use the second one.
In fact you can probably choose one of the top directories and it will import everything in one go. I haven't used it like that, but it probably is recursive.

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