Removing (temporarily) 6,000 songs from Itunes

I would like to temporarily remove the 6,000 songs that I have in Itunes and place them on my Neptune remote hard drive.
I am remastering some old vinyl and I need the space to do this.
After the remastering, I want to place my songs back in Itunes on my internal hard drive.
Can some one help with this situation?

Similar question. I am not very computer savy, please bear with me. My laptop is on very low hard drive space. I have freed up as much space as I can. I have @ 1000 cd's that I want to put in my itunes library. Righ now I have 1800 songs in the library, and my hard drive space won't allow many more. I've just backed up the 1800 songs (it took 20 cd's to do so). My next move is to delete that same itunes library from my computer and itunes as it is now backed up)...to create more space. I will then bring in more of my music to the blank itunes library...and repeat the process of backing up that library...and so on until I have all of my music backed up. The reason for this is that I am purchasing a new ipod...one that will hold my entire library. Right now I have an ipod nano 8gb. It can't hold all of my music. I just don't know if all of this will work. Once I have the new ipod, my plan of attack is use the backup discs to reload my library, 1800 songs at a time, save those songs to the new ipod playlists, delete the library, put the next batch of backed up music into the library and so on...all because my laptop won't hold much more than @2000 songs in my C drive at one time. I don't want to purchase an external hard drive. Any suggestions? Will my plan work? I appreciate any help.

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