Size of my iTunes Library.

OK so i have a rather sizeable library, all being stored on an external HD. iTunes reads it and displays 288.76 GB, and that is all that is stored to my external HD is music thats in my iTunes library. My question or problem is this.... The External HD shows 299 GB used on it, and i have the mojority of the music on the HD in my iTunes library.
I have gone through each folder to look for duplicates, and find some of the music i chose not to have in the library for now but there was very little of either. There is a 10 GB difference between the two so does iTunes read this info accurately or is there something else im missing that may account for the missing 10 GB that doesnt show in iTunes itself?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Are the library files themselves stored on the external drive or separately on an internal drive? I have a similar sized collection of music, with just over 2Gb of library files, album artwork & iPod games. Also taking up space in the iTunes Music folder are Movies, TV Shows, Podcasts & Audiobooks which are not included in the total given for Music. Lastly the storage size for a file depends on the cluster size that the hard drive is carved up into. Even a single byte file requires a full cluster for storage. On average the wasted space is No. of files x Cluster size / 2.
In short I suspect nothing is wrong, you're just comparing two things that are not meant to be the same.
tt2

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