Newbie - loading music to itunes from Network drive

I just bought my first mac and I'm attempting to start using itunes with my Ipod touch and load music from a network drive that I have both of my PC's music backed up to.
In itunes, it sees some of the music from the network drive but not all of it. The folders/music are all available and I can see them in Finder but Itunes doesn't find all of the music.
Is there anyway to point itunes to the appropriate folder so I can add the music?

Welcome to the Forums, Scott!
You can add a folder of music to iTunes by pressing Command-O or going to iTunes-> Add To Library...
Hope this helps!
-Nate

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