Proper sync from newly downloaded music to my external drive

Hi to all you experts out there...
I have successfully followed article 301748 and consolidated all my existing music to my external HDD. However, it just occurred to me, if I start piling up music files in my iTunes on the computer again and I want to back it up (consolidate) to my external HDD again, will I have problem sync. them? Or does it mean I will have to create a different file name so I'll have two files of my music? Will I have problem viewing/playing the two files on my iTunes at the same time ? I'm a bit of organize freak, I would love to be able to see the two files merged and sort properly instead of one file at a time.
Thanks and your help is greatly appreciated.

Hi,
If you followed Article 301748 to move your music to an external drive, then in iTunes Preferences you changed the location where your music is stored to the external drive.
Therefore, any new music that you add will be stored in that location, and not on your computer.
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