Old Library on External Harddrive not recognised on new PC for iTunes

Hi, I've just bought a new pc after my old one gave up one me. I have my iTunes library saved to an external harddrive and I've changed the Library name to that of my harddrive location in Prefences>General>Library Name. I also changed The Preferences Advanced tab>iTunes Music folder location to point to the external harddrive location where my music files are and no music appears in my library. All I want is my library off my ipod to be replicated back into the itunes library as i've a lot of history here. Can it be done?

MACROSTATE wrote:
I have all of my iTunes media on an external HD that I access wirelessly. Been running it like this for a long time off my MacBook Pro without a problem.
Yesterday I got a new iMac and followed the steps to connect my new iMac's iTunes to the remote library. When I go to Prefs > Advanced > Change iTunes Media Folder Location, I can see the folder with my iTunes content, but the content does not show up in iTunes after I select the folder.
on the iMac, launch iTunes with the options key pressed. this window will appear
select choose and navigate to the iTunes library file on your external HD.
any joy ?

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